Tucson Weekly 01/31/2013 by Tucson Weekly

Background checks are overwhelmingly popular. So why is it so hard to implement them? BY JIM NINTZEL | Page 14

JANUARY 31-FEBRUARY 6, 2013 VOL. 29, NO. 50

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OPINION Tom Danehy 4 Renée Downing 6 Jim Hightower 6 Guest Commentary 8

CURRENTS The Skinny 9 By Jim Nintzel

Legal Schmegal 9 By Mari Herreras

TUSD desegregation case sees a bevy of filings Media Watch 10 By John Schuster

Bubbling Up 11 By Patrick McNamara

Tucson has a taste for locally brewed beer Weekly Wide Web 12 Compiled by David Mendez

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Bad Habitat 13 By Tim Vanderpool

Our Aussie Day party remained gunshot free somehow.

Critics call Arizona Game and Fish antiquated and anti-predator Background Noise 14 By Jim Nintzel

Background checks are overwhelming popular, so why is it so hard to implement them? On the Firing Line 15 By Jim Nintzel

Tucsonans are in the center of the nation’s new fight against gun violence

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Changes! Taking over a job like the editorship here at the Weekly can be a peculiar adventure, as I’ve mentioned in this space before. Once I got the gig, people were asking what I was planning on changing, assuming that I would move quickly to re-cast the Weekly based on my own whims and preferences. There’s an aspect of that which is true - I didn’t get the job because I wanted to leave everything exactly the same, I imagine - but on the other hand, I have a great affection for what’s been produced here week after week for almost 30 years, so it’s not like I believe we need to start over from scratch either. So, yes, there will obviously be changes (I’d prefer to think of the process as evolution, but whatever), but you should continue to be able to recognize the Weekly as the Weekly. That being said, starting this week, you’ll start seeing some changes. Nothing that will cause you to reexamine the very nature of your existence, just a few little things that hopefully work to make the paper a little better. First, we’ve added a second crossword puzzle. This might fall more into the “whim” category, but whenever something has gone wrong with our printing of the Sunday New York Times crossword, there’s been a significant outcry, so there’s an audience for puzzles. Plus, the new one, edited by Ben Tausig, is a bit more modern and occasionally a bit bawdy. I had fun solving it, so I hope you do as well. Also, we’ve added a comic by E.G. Pettinger called Mild Abandon. Pettinger sent us a book containing 65 of his comics and we couldn’t stop laughing at his absurd take on the world. Mostly, I just wanted an opportunity to see his comic on a weekly basis, so I put it in the paper. To make room for those two items, we’re dropping movie times starting this week. Surprisingly, movie times are a colossal pain to get together and changes seem to happen weekly between our deadline and Friday when the schedules change at theaters. That info will still be on our website (with a new link to buy tickets via Fandango), so feel free to look there. More to come, but let me know what you think so far.

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an. 21 was a great day for Cleo Robinson, as it was for a lot of African-Americans. (It probably should have been a great day for all Americans, but we’re not quite there yet.) After all, a black president—having been re-elected by a majority of American voters—was being inaugurated on Martin Luther King Day. That’s pretty special. Instead of kicking back and enjoying the day, Cleo spent his time refereeing a high school basketball game at McKale Center as part of the MLK Classic. He (and all of the other refs who worked the seven games that day) donated their checks so that tournament organizers could award $500 scholarships to a couple of high school seniors. Cleo was attending Northern Arizona University on an athletic scholarship the day that Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated (April 4, 1968) and, like most people who lived through the 1960s, that day is a touchstone in his life. “I remember it really well. There was a young woman, and I don’t know how, but she always seemed to know everything first and then went around telling everybody. I remember when she told me that it had happened that I wasn’t all that surprised. We all thought sure that the Klan was involved.” Cleo was born and raised in Rillito, a small, almost allblack enclave near the Portland Cement plant that serves to signal one’s departure from the Tucson metropolitan area on the way to Phoenix. Rillito was founded by people who had come here from Texas and other parts of the South during the Depression/Dust Bowl, looking for work in the cotton fields in and around Marana. He attended Marana High School, which, back in the 1960s, served four distinct groups of kids. There were the farmers’ kids from around Marana, the cotton pickers’ kids from Rillito, the miners’ kids from the Silverbell area, and then the handful of kids from northwest Tucson (the Marana School District actually extends down to the northwest corner of Ina and Thornydale). There wasn’t any overt racism at Marana High, but Cleo recalls that the different groups pretty much kept to themselves. “We had a couple Mexican guys who hung out with us, but that’s because they were also athletes.” No matter how good the Rillito athletes were, about all they had to look forward to after leaving high school was, according to Cleo, “either picking cotton or chopping cotton.” (The latter involves using a hoe to remove weeds from around the cotton plants.) But then, that all changed. His eyes light up when he talks about his brother, Paul, a couple of years his senior. Paul was one of the first stud athletes to come out of Rillito, a multi-sport monster who

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starred in football and track. After high school, he ran track at Eastern Arizona College. (Pima Community College didn’t exist at the time; it opened in 1969.) After his time at Eastern was up, Paul Robinson faced a tough choice. By then he was married, with a child on the way. He felt that it would be best to stop his education and get a job to support his family. But Paul Robinson had been the first Rillito kid to actually go to college and he felt that he had an obligation beyond his personal situation. “Paul knew that all of us were looking up to him,” Cleo recalls. “He felt that stopping college after two years would be a sign of failure and he didn’t want to let any of us (in Rillito) down.” Paul’s parents and his in-laws cobbled together some money to help keep the young couple afloat and he moved on with his education. He initially was set to go to NAU, but at the last minute, ended up at the University of Arizona. As the story goes, when the NAU coach learned that Paul wasn’t coming, he called Paul and said, “Send your brother (Cleo) instead.” Paul was a second-string running back for the Wildcats until one fateful day. The Cats were playing at Ohio State and an injury to the starter put Robinson in the game. He ran wild against the heavily favored Buckeyes, rushing for more than 120 yards in the 14-7 upset victory. The Cats would win only two other games all year, against the fledgling Air Force Academy and then-rival New Mexico. In the Ohio State crowd that day was legendary NFL coach and owner Paul Brown. His new team, the Cincinnati Bengals, drafted the Wildcat running back and Robinson responded by becoming only the second rookie ever to rush for more than 1,000 yards in a season. Paul Robinson was named the American Football League’s Rookie of the Year by The Sporting News. Both Cleo and younger brother Jerry would follow Paul to college and all three earned degrees. For quite a long time, Cleo was one of the Pac-10’s top football officials, but he has since moved up into the instant replay booth. (“Same pay, plus air conditioning,” he jokes.) And, at 66, he is still one of the best high school basketball refs around. After he finished the game at McKale, he got set to go home and maybe watch some of the inauguration festivities. As Ice Cube once said (before he started making sappy family movies), I guess it was a good day.

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Things fall apart: of toasters, corkscrews and underpants HIGHTOWER BY JIM HIGHTOWER

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hoddy. Schlocky. Crappy. Mickey Mouse. Ticky tack. Cracker box. These are some of the many derogatory adjectives my father used to describe the many badly made things that afflicted him throughout his life. So characteristic of him was this type of complaint that I could hear him pronouncing each word, deliberately, with bottomless disgust, as I typed them. And since we all become our parents over time, I find myself more and more offended by shoddy, schlocky, crappy stuff. Take my toaster. Please. It’s a $70 Cuisinart 4-slice purchased two years ago after I finally gave up on the horrible $200 English-made Dualit from Williams-Sonoma. (Yes, my theory was that I might be able to get a toaster that worked by paying more. Ha.) The brand was reassuring—I own a Cuisinart food processor that’s had heavy use for 25 years, and in spite of pieces broken off the bowl and a crack in the base, it keeps working. But the toaster? Yech. Last night, Ed toasted a piece of bread that came out burnt on one side and light brown on the other. This is what you get for 70 bucks in 21st-century America.

Last year, Sheriff Tommy Gage of Montgomery County, Texas, was eager to show off his new surveillance toy. Having been given a $300,000 Homeland Security grant by the federal government, his office had become the first police agency in the nation to have its very own drone, a pilotless aircraft to monitor and, yes, spy on people. This beauty came with the deluxe eye-inthe-sky package, including infrared detection equipment and a power zoom camera. Filled with pride, the sheriff summoned the media to a big photo-op last March to witness him and the drone strutting their stuff. In 2011, Julie Lasky had a wonderful little piece in the To add drama to this show of police power, annual New York Times Magazine food issue about why Gage also had his SWAT team attend in full toasters are so bad. I was genuinely relieved to learn that it riot regalia, positioning them in their wasn’t just me. It turns out that, according to appliance con“Bearcat,” an armored vehicle. noisseurs, the toaster achieved near-perfection in 1949 with The ground controller launched the pilotthe introduction of the Sunbeam T-20, which worked like a less aircraft as the sheriff beamed — but charm and lasted decades. The best toaster ever made, the the demonstration went horribly wrong. Toastmaster 1B14, was discontinued in 1960. Experts blame Coming in for a landing, the high-tech marprice pressure—the original T-20 cost $22.50, a third of a vel suddenly went on the fritz, losing conweek’s wages for the average family—for the terrible things tact with the controller. Not only did it crash in front of the startled media — but, that have happened since to the design and manufacture of even more startling to Sheriff Gage, it a once-dependable kitchen workhorse. But as my advencrashed right into his SWAT squad’s tures in toasting show, paying more will not get you an Bearcat. Luckily, the armored vehicle held up, so none of the SWAT THIS MODERN WORLD By Tom Tomorrow teamers were injured. But what a show! For one thing, the photo-op showed that if the American people don’t stop the reckless rush by the police-industry complex to deploy thousands of domestic drones in the next few years, all of us had better be shopping for Bearcats to drive. Oh, in case you’re also concerned that these spy machines will crash into our Constitution and be used to invade our privacy rights, Sheriff Gage says not to worry: “No matter what we do in law enforcement, somebody’s going to question it,” grumps the Lone Star sheriff, “but we’re going to do the right thing, and I can assure you of that.” Hmmm… how assured does that make you feel?

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appliance that works anything like a 1949 Sunbeam. It’s hard to know who or what to blame. China? Apple achieves excellent quality there. A general erosion of technological quality? My husband’s experience during his recent hip replacement—same operation, surgeon and hospital as five years before (different hip)—left us with the conviction that medical technology, at least, has moved perceptibly forward on nearly every front during the last five years. So the erosion is not everywhere. But the $21 OXO winged corkscrew I bought after an impossible cork sent me in search of ultimate mechanical advantage? The shank of the screw simply snapped after six months. (This underscored the enduring truth of what a fellow waitress told me my first night on the job—only buy corkscrews made in Italy or France, two countries that are serious about opening those bottles. All others bend or break.) The Arrowhead water cooler that’s started buzzing and rattling after a year? Another devolution—the first one we had worked silently for more than a decade. My friend Susan’s underwear collection? She’s been buying the same underpants from Victoria’s Secret for 15 years and is easily provoked into a frothing rant about how pairs she’s had for more than 10 years look better than ones she bought a few months back. Ultimately, maybe the blame for quality erosion lies with us all as consumers, for focusing too much on price and not enough on functionality and, even more, the durability of what we buy. Maybe we’ve all been conditioned to accept low quality, planned obsolescence and waste—not to mention the national loss of whole industries—in exchange for low prices. Maybe it’s time to rethink that dynamic. Another thing that’s happened to us is that we’ve turned into a nation of people who shop for amusement, semiprofessional consumers who think it’s fun and exciting to stand in lines in the middle of the night after Thanksgiving. For people who love shopping, who find it entertaining, I suppose buying the same stuff over and over again is fine, as long as it’s cheap enough. But it’s not fine with me. I would also prefer not hearing Dad’s voice in my head every time I get out my credit card, because what he’s saying is that I’m probably getting rooked into buying yet another badly engineered, carelessly made piece of Mickey Mouse crap. He’s usually right.

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Arizona is doing guns right; President Obama is “afraid of knowledge” BY JONATHAN HOFFMAN, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

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n amazing thing happened in 2004: The sun set on the federal assault weapons ban. I never thought any gun law would be allowed to expire. But wait, it gets better. Prior to that, in 1987, faced with an ever-increasing violent crime rate, the state of Florida passed a new type of concealed carry permit. It was different in that any law-abiding citizen who met the requirements would get a permit. Concealed carry permit laws up until then were actually leftover Jim Crow laws—a local sheriff or police chief could cancel any permit application without cause, and without appeal, so permits could be denied to people of color. Many other states followed suit. Most of these states were red states, including Arizona. Most of the Jim Crow laws existed in Eastern blue states. Then another incredible thing happened. Arizona took the next step, and got rid of the law that prevented people from carrying concealed, or discreetly, in the first place! The permit system remained in place, since it did provide certain benefits to the holder. Liberty was on a roll! In his book More Guns, Less Crime, John Lott surveyed data from every single county in the United States. He wanted to find out if the wave of Florida-style “Shall Issue” permits had any effect on violent crime. The answer was “yes.” They made violent crime rates go down. Alas, the forces aligned against liberty never sleep. After the massacre of children in Connecticut, the ant-liberty forces “pulled the trigger” on their latest attack on the Bill of Rights. They couldn’t resist exploiting the dead children. Sen. Dianne Feinstein wanted to reinstate the federal assault weapons ban and require universal background checks on every firearm transaction (dealer or private sale), effectively building a list of firearms owners like some sort of sex offender registry. Feinstein, by her own admission, had been working on the bill over the past year, a time during which those who stocked up on guns and ammo were laughed at (no one is laughing now). President Obama, proving that he is comfortable with not only exploiting dead children but live children, too, held a press conference in which he was surrounded by little kids and announced his list of 23 executive orders, and called on Congress to pass more laws that will have no effect on crime. The president said, “We should not be afraid of knowledge.” I agree. I just wish he believed it. John Lott points out that “In 2003, the last full year before the ban expired, the U.S. murder rate was 5.7 per 100,000 people, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s uniform crime report. By 2011, the murder rate fell to 4.7 per 100,000 people. One should also bear in mind that just 2.6 percent of all murders are committed using any type of rifle.” Stop the deaths! No rifle bans! A note about “high-capacity” magazines: Twenty-round magazines for AR-15 rifles are not high-capacity. They are the standard magazines that were designed along with the guns. “Why do you need a 20-round magazine?” some people have asked me. First, why does one feel the need to ask that question? I don’t have to justify my exercising of my

right—but I’ll offer a couple of anecdotes. Many Korean business owners, who in 1992 found themselves in the middle of the Los Angeles riots, defended their families and their businesses with military-style rifles. If you and your son each have a rifle, and your building is being threatened by a violent mob, you are probably glad to have a 20-round magazine. More recently, a 15-year-old boy was home alone with his younger sister when two men attempted a home invasion at his house from two different entry points. The boy drove them off with his father’s AR15 rifle, protecting himself and his sister. Sorry, no dead children this time. An AR-15 rifle may not have a place in a movie theater, but it certainly has a place in the home or business. I suspect that many of you have never heard of one or both of these events, yet you know who Adam Lanza is. Why is that? So, if guns—“assault rifles” in particular—are not the problem, what is the point of attempting to deny an enumerated right of the people? Particularly one that “shall not be infringed”?

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Legal Schmegal BY MARI HERRERAS, mherreras@tucsonweekly.com ecember was supposed to be it, at least according to U.S. District Court Judge David S. Bury. That was back in September when Bury responded to a request for a deadline extension by all parties involved in the Tucson Unified School District’s almost 40-year-old desegregation lawsuit – TUSD, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the Mendoza plaintiffs representing Mexican-American students and the Fisher plaintiffs representing African-American students. That was also before the district announced it had a $17 million deficit and began a public process that ended with the TUSD governing board approving the closure of 11 schools which knocks off less than $5 million. This month, there’s been a bevy of filings with Bury, mostly centered on school closures, lastminute objections and letters specifically against Mexican-American studies (MAS) filed this month by failed U.S. Congressional candidate Gabriela Saucedo Mercer, TUSD governing board member Mark Stegeman and Tucson resident Barney Popkin. After last year’s extension request, Bury responded with a series of new deadlines, including two in December — Dec. 10 was the deadline for release of the revised final desegregation plan filed with the court and Dec. 14 was the final deadline for all parties, including state Attorney General Tom Horne, to file responses to any objections and changes made to the plan that came from the public comment process. Court-appointed desegregation special master Willis Hawley, charged with working with all the parties to develop a desegregation proposal, met the Dec. 10 deadline. Horne got in on the action and filed his objections, as did TUSD on the inclusion of culturally relevant curriculum (CRC) for Mexican-American and African-American studies, as well as other items in the proposal. There was an attempt before the Dec. 14 deadline to direct TUSD legal to withdraw its objection to CRC curriculum at the Dec. 11 governing board meeting (See “Confusion Contusion,” Dec. 20, 2012) by board member Adelita Grijalva. The process that took place that evening was confusing and TUSD issued a statement that the majority vote that took place was not a motion to withdraw the CRC objection. Grijalva said she’d bring the motion back at the Jan. 8 meeting, and by the end of the meeting legal confirmed it would file a notice of withdrawal of that particular objection. In response to the school closures submitted by TUSD to bury for approval, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) attorneys representing the Mendoza

plaintiffs filed an objection on Tuesday, Jan. 22, and was joined by another objection against school closures filed by Fisher plaintiffs’ attorney Rubin Salter. The DOJ also filed a brief that outlined concerns specific to each school closure, but did not object. The DOJ’s failure to object, however, came with a premise, “on the assurance that the District understands its obligations under the existing and potential desegregation orders ...” One concerns from MALDEF is “... At a meeting with District counsel, the District admitted that it has not undertaken any analysis that would provide guidance on how to make improvements for student transitions when schools are closed.” According to Salter, the reason he filed an objection on behalf of the Fisher plaintiffs against the closures was concern the district lacked much-needed information. “It’s like the cart before the horse,” he said, “and by that I meant they don’t know what attendance levels are going to be and what some of the (receiving) schools are like. They didn’t give us enough information. They said students were going to better schools, which is not true in some instances.” One example in Salter’s objection is TUSD’s own explanation that it doesn’t have an analysis of past closures and has only looked at the current student population and geographic areas. “I am really concerned, especially about special education students and the needs of those children going from one school to another,” he said. “I just think the district ought to have every issue addressed before they close the schools.” Besides the school closure objection filed by Salter on behalf of the Fisher plaintiffs, a letter from Lorraine Richardson was also submitted to Bury on behalf of the “Fisher committee,” a group of four local representatives who work with Salter to represent the Fisher plaintiffs. Salter said he recognizes that this letter is wellpast Bury’s Dec. 14 deadline, but it includes objections they unsuccessfully tried to get into the current proposal. In the letter, Richardson outlines a list of concerns — too administrator heavy in hiring plan; too focused on outside data rather than data collected by school, teachers, students or parents; no plan to hold teachers and others responsible for non-performance and other issues. “Most of what we see in this plan is a bureaucracy to cover past and future administrators who are afraid of real responsibility and leadership for a school system that refuses to implement systemic change,” Richardson wrote. On the Fisher committee, we asked Salter for

a history of the Fishers, the African-American plaintiffs who first filed the desegregation lawsuit in the 1970s. Unlike the Mendoza family, who regularly communicates with its representative, Sylvia Campoy, Salter said the Fishers left Tucson shortly after the lawsuit was first filed and no longer remain part of the picture. “They were military people and they got transferred soon after the lawsuit was filed,” Salter said. “This is a class action lawsuit and under the old (post-unitary status plan) there was a committee created called the Fisher committee to help with the drafting of the plan and it’s continued to help.” The remaining letters sent to Bury focus on MAS. Mercer wrote in her letter it was discovered that the (Cabrera report) was done by a supporter of MAS and that’s wrong, but she also said a professor at the University of Arkansas confirmed the study was flawed. “It is imperative that you not allow a few radicals and one man in Maryland to decide what is right for our community.” Stegeman’s letter also expressed issue with the data Hawley used in support of MAS in the deseg proposal and isn’t happy that it was written by two “well-known advocates for MAS,” possibly referring to UA College of Education professors Nolan Cabrera and Jeff Milem. “This raises the possibility that the Special Master sought to drive a particular conclusion rather than to seek an objective analysis,” Stegman wrote. And just in case you need one more antiMAS rant, here’s a comment from Popkin to Bury, “I urge you NOT to support the wrongheaded initiative to restore the racist, divisive, hateful, anti-American and illegal La Raza-based (MAS) program. The evil-minded MASP is again being proposed ...” MALDEF attorney Nancy Ramirez said it’s up to Bury to decide what to do with these latest letters filed almost a month after the final deadline set by the judge last year. “He may take them into consideration or he may not. I can’t speak for Judge Bury.” Salter and others told the Weekly a decision on the deseg proposal could be made by Bury by mid-February, and on school closures by April. The school closure objections and the recent communication to Judge David S. Bury referred to in this story can be read online at www. TucsonWeekly/blogs/TheRange, The Tucson Weekly’s Daily Dispatch.

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Arizona Sens. John McCain and Jeff Flake joined a half-dozen other senators this week to unveil a bipartisan framework for immigration reform. They rushed their proposal out on Monday, Jan. 28, to stay ahead of President Barack Obama, who revealed his own immigration-reform proposal on Tuesday, Jan. 29. For McCain, it’s a return to a position that he held before he abandoned it as he ran for president and then reelection to the U.S. Senate. So there’s a chance he might flip-flop again and end up opposing the immigration-reform bill when it comes up for a vote. Flake has also favored this kind of approach in the past as a member of Congress, but when he launched his campaign for the U.S. Senate, he started talking a lot more about fences and security and a lot less about helping undocumented workers get legal status. Flake spokeswoman Genevieve Rozansky tells The Range via email: “Sen. Flake believes that now is the time to move forward with immigration reform that includes increased border security, a workable program to address future labor needs, and a plan to deal with those already in the country illegally without granting them amnesty.” Of course, that all depends on your definition of “amnesty.” We’ve noted in the past that folks in the GOP base tend to have a very broad definition of the word—i.e., anything short of either rounding up the estimated 11 million undocumented workers in the United States or making life so miserable for them that they “self-deport” amounts to amnesty. That particular attitude has made resolving the status of those undocumented workers the most difficult knot to untie in any immigration-reform plan, but it also had a lot to do with why more than 70 percent of Latinos voted for Obama in the presidential race. And that percentage has a lot to do with why Republicans are now pushing immigration reform. GOP nativists are likely to be disappointed in this struggle. The Senate plan calls for allowing people who have entered the country through unlawful channels or overstayed their visas to apply for legal status and even allows a path to citizenship, provided they haven’t been involved in serious criminal activity and pay fines and back taxes. This is not good news to the likes of Jesse Kelly, the clownish Tea Partier who split town after losing two congressional races to take a job in Washington, despite all those protestations about how he hated politics. Kelly posted on his Facebook page that the Republican Party is now “officially the ‘France Party’ instead of the GOP. Just surrender continuously and hope for the best.” And Kelly’s disenchanted post came before Buzzfeed broke the news that House Republicans are also preparing

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STAR ANNOUNCES CHANGES The Arizona Daily Star apparently loves the title of senior editor. Of the six tweaks to roles and responsibilities announced in the Sunday, Jan. 20, Moving Up section, three included a senior editor in some capacity. New members of the senior editor club are Hipolito R. Corella, senior editor for breaking news and daily enterprise; Debbie Kornmiller, senior editor for custom content and delivery; and Jill Jorden Spitz, senior editor for watchdog journalism, projects and Sundays. Word inside the Star compound at Park and Irvington is that the newspaper plans to add two reporters for a so-called watchdog team. In other changes at the Star, Maria Parham has been named editorial page editor, John Bolton has been named night editor and Tim Steller has transitioned to metro columnist.

2012 GOOD FOR LEE EXECS Mary Junck, the CEO of struggling Lee Enterprises, the Davenport, Iowa-based company that owns and operates the Arizona Daily Star, was rewarded handsomely for her role in negotiating the organization through a structured bankruptcy. In addition to her annual salary of $900,000, Junck also received $655,000 in stock rewards and more than $38,000 in other compensation, a good portion of which came from retirement matching funds. And there’s more. Junck received a special bonus of half a million dollars as a result of the company’s bankruptcy settlement, approved in January 2012. Lee is nowhere near out of the woods as newspapers continue trying to figure out how to make a profit with an archaic model that got clobbered by technological advancements and a dramatic economic downturn. The company lost $20 million in fiscal 2012, but that’s significantly better than the nearly $150 million loss it incurred in 2011. Although the company’s operating revenue decreased by 2 percent from 2011 figures, other high-ranking managers also received dramatic pay bumps. Carl Schmidt, the chief financial officer and treasurer, was paid almost $906,000, an increase of 48 percent from the year before. Kevin Mowbray, a Lee vice president of publishing, made more than $590,000, a 33 percent bump. Greg Veon, another Lee vice president, made $450,000, up 13 percent. Michael Gulledge, vice president of sales and marketing, took in nearly $527,000, up 76 percent from fiscal 2011. As of Monday, Lee stock was selling in the $1.30 range.

KVOI ADDS HERMAN CAIN KVOI 1030 AM has added former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain to its syndicated talk-show lineup. Cain replaced Neal Boortz, who retired from the profession earlier this month. However, the station that aired Boortz, KQTH 104.1 FM, opted not to keep Cain, so KVOI took advantage of the opportunity. 10 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

Cain’s program airs from 9 to 11 p.m. locally. It’s the second addition at KVOI in the past couple of months. The Savage Nation, hosted by Michael Savage, is aired from 7 to 9 p.m. KVOI’s daytime lineup remains largely unchanged. Chris DeSimone and Joe Higgins host Wake Up! Tucson weekday mornings from 6 to 8 a.m., followed by a couple of syndicated programs. The Dennis Miller Show is on from 8 to 10 a.m., followed by The Mike Huckabee Show from 10 a.m. to noon. The locally produced Buckmaster Show airs from noon to 1 p.m., followed by a return to syndication with The Michael Medved Show from 1 to 3 p.m. Then it’s back to local content with John C. Scott from 3 to 5 p.m., followed by Hugh Hewitt’s nationally syndicated broadcast from 5 to 7 p.m. Meanwhile, the KQTH lineup tweak features the return of Laura Ingraham’s syndicated program, which airs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the Rusty Humphries Show, broadcast from 1 to 3 p.m. Jerry Doyle, whose syndicated program used to air in this market in the afternoon, has been pushed to 6 p.m. Jon Justice (weekdays 6 to 10 a.m.) and James T. Harris (weekdays 3 to 5 p.m.) make up the station’s local presence.

ARIZONA ILLUSTRATED LAUNCHING REVAMP Arizona Public Media is giving local news program Arizona Illustrated a compartmentalized feel for its new-look launch Monday, Feb. 4. The half-hour news program, which is broadcast at 6:30 p.m. weeknights on local PBS affiliate KUAT Channel 6, is scrapping the single-host approach in favor of a themebased model. Five hosts will occupy the anchor chair during the course of the week. On Mondays, Maria Parham, the recently appointed editorial page editor at the Arizona Daily Star, will host AZ Illustrated Metro, with a focus on issues related to education, business and government in Southern Arizona. Andrea Kelly will handle producer duties. Jane Poynter will occupy the anchor chair on Tuesdays for AZ Illustrated Science, which will focus on advances in science and health. Georgia Davis will produce the program. Davis also will host Wednesday’s nature block, which is touted as an awareness outlet for subjects such as solar energy, recycling, hydrology, water conservation and ecotourism. Tony Paniagua will produce. Art is the featured theme Thursdays. Elizabeth Burden will host and longtime KUAZ 89.1 FM radio host Mark McLemore will be responsible for producer duties. Expect a heavy dose of music, spoken word and other in-studio performances from members of the region’s arts community. Tucson Weekly journalist Jim Nintzel will continue as host of Friday’s politics-based programming, which is pretty much the lone visual and stylistic holdover from the days when Bill Buckmaster held the anchor reins at Arizona Illustrated. The program has struggled in terms of content and identity since Buckmaster’s departure for KVOI 1030 AM, where he hosts an interview-based program that airs at noon on weekdays. The launch will also feature a new studio look.

CURRENTS Tucson’s taste for locally-brewed beer continues to increase

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t came as little surprise to Myles Stone that Tucson had a largely untapped market for craft brewed beer. But it was a surprise that demand for his fledgling Borderlands Brewing Co.’s beers would so quickly outpace supply. “There hasn’t been a day we haven’t been sold out since we opened,” Stone said. Stone, along with partners Mike Mallozzi and Blake Collins, opened their microbrewery and taproom at 119 E. Toole Ave. downtown in late 2011. Stone said they started the venture with just $2,000 in cash. Since then, the popularity of Borderlands has grown exponentially, playing host to numerous food truck events, parties, art exhibits and even a wedding. All while supplying keg beer to several downtown and regional bars and restaurants. Last week, the Borderlands crew reopened after a break to complete their expanded brewing facility, allowing them to increase their capacity by more than 10 times. The growing success of Borderlands, which has coincided with downtown’s renaissance, exemplifies a trend in the state’s craft brewing industry. A 2012 Northern Arizona University study of the state’s craft brewing industry showed that the once novelty brew pub and microbrewery sector has begun to transcend cult status to become a real force. The study, conducted by NAU’s Hospitality Research and Resource Center and the Arizona Rural Policy Institute for the Arizona Craft Brewer’s Guild, found that the craft-brewed beer sector contributed a $278 million impact on Arizona’s economy in 2011. Craft brewers in Arizona produced more than 119,000 barrels in 2011, a 22 percent increase over 2010, according to the study. In units of beer measurement, a barrel equals 31 gallons, about double a conventional keg. The study calculated that craft beer production in the state increased more than 20 percent each year from 2009 to 2011. In an era where overall beer sales have fallen, craft beer sales continue to climb. Between 2008 and 2010, according to figures from the Brewers Association, sales of major national label brands of beer fell by more than 3 percent. The craft-beer sector has grown. Craft beer sales increased by 10 percent in 2009, by 12 percent in 2010 and by 13 percent in 2011. Brewers Association figures from last summer showed that 2012 sales of craft beer were continuing the trend, with a 14 percent increase over the previous year. Another newcomer to Tucson’s brewing

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Drink up: Craft brewers in Arizona produced more than 119,000 barrels in 2011. market is Dragoon Brewing Co., 1859 W. Grant Road, No. 111, which opened in April 2012. Eric Greene, head of brewing for Dragoon, said the company started out with the intention of producing about 1,200 barrels per year. In less than a year, however, demand for the beer has exceeded expectations. “It took off a lot faster than we thought it would,” Greene said. So much so the company intends to expand its brewing capacity to 9,000 barrels per year, which Greene said was more than a year ahead of plans. Dragoon distributes to more than 50 restaurants and bars in Tucson and about 10 locations in the Phoenix area. A specially brewed beer the company makes for Whole Foods markets is available exclusively at the retailers seven stores currently open in the state. “The microbrewing industry has really taken off in Arizona in the last four to five years,” Greene said. While the industry has grown in Arizona, it’s well behind other states where craft brewing has flourished. Arizona ranks 30th in terms of per capita breweries among the 50 states and District of Columbia, according to a 2011 analysis done by the Brewers Association. With 34 breweries operating in the state at the time, that was the equivalent of one for each 188,000 residents. Vermont had the most per capita, with 24

breweries or one for every 26,000 people. Oregon was second with 124 breweries or one for every 30,000 residents. California has the most breweries of any state, 268. That dearth of breweries in Arizona played into Greene’s decision to start Dragoon. After attending NAU in Flagstaff and later the American Brewers Guild training program, Greene apprenticed in Boston before returning home to Tucson. He considered opening a brewery in Colorado or the Pacific Northwest, but the large number of craft brewers already operating in those areas meant there would be more competition. “Arizona is a place that everyone realized was under-saturated and had room to grow,” Greene said. Going back to the 1990s, there were just three craft brewers in the Tucson region, Gentle Ben’s near the University of Arizona Campus, Nimbus in the south side warehouse district off Palo Verde Road and Thunder Canyon Brewery in Foothills Mall. More recently, Barrio Brewing, a second effort by the folks behind Gentle Ben’s, opened in 2006, Thunder Canyon opened a second location this month downtown and Ten 55 Brewing is planning a grand opening Feb. 2 in the warehouse district off South Palo Verde Road. Sentinel Peak Brewing, after running into renovation issues with the city, are brewing beer and making plans for a facility of their own. For his part Stone said, “Tucson has really turned the corner on brew culture.”

CHUCK

The deadline has come and gone for lawmakers to file bills at the Arizona Legislature. That doesn’t mean that we won’t see new legislation emerge this session; it’s easy enough to file a relatively uncontroversial bills that renames an alleyway and then turns it into a striker vehicle to put landmines along the border. We’ll be looking at more of the bills next week, but one that caught our eye is HB 2492, which repeals a law passed last session that gave Marana more legal backing for its effort to snatch a sewer plant away from Pima County. HB 2492 is sponsored by a group of Southern Arizona lawmakers, including Republicans Adam Kwasman and Ethan Orr and Democrats Bruce Wheeler and Victoria Steele. The fight over the sewer plant has been going on for years now. Marana has tried various ways to take the plant because they want to have the wastewater that’s produced in order to have more water credits, which allows for more growth in the future; Pima County has fought back and frequently prevailed in court. Last year, Marana did an end run around the courts and got a law passed that allows any municipality to take control of sewage treatment plants from a county government provided the municipality follows a few steps, including paying off any remaining debt on the facility and having a vote of the citizens to approve the grab. Repealing that law was a condition of a settlement offer floated to Marana from Pima County Administrator Chuck Huckelberry. The county has agreed to sell Marana the sewer plant for $18.2 million, which is the remaining principal and interest on the loan that built the plant via a bond measure. The settlement also establishes a fixed boundary for existing Marana homes, according to Huckelberry, which should prevent future squabbling over serving residents. Huckelberry says he pushed for the settlement because “it ends this contentious debate that has gone on for too long. If the legislation, which was ill-advised in the first place, is repealed, then we’re basically whole.” By repealing last year’s law, Huckelberry also gets assurance that future communities won’t try to seize other portions of the wastewater system, ensuring that it remains a regional system. “We wanted to have that precedent erased from law permanently,” Huckelberry says. “The most important component was basically not being threatened by this law 10 years down

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BY ANNA MIROCHA mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

SLEEPING AROUND UA AREA JAN. 14, 12:37 A.M.

A woman was arrested after officers found she apparently made a habit of sleeping in the lounges of UA dorms, according to a UA Police Department report. Officers investigating an “unwanted person” call at Manzanita Residence Hall found a woman sleeping on a couch in the dorm’s common area. After one of the officers got the woman to sit up and answer questions, she admitted that she wasn’t a UA student, but claimed a male student she had met outside the dorm gave her permission to stay there. She said the student left while she slept. The woman then told officers, “I’m going to leave. I haven’t done anything wrong,” to which one officer replied, “You don’t live here. You aren’t free to leave.” A records check showed that the woman had a number of outstanding warrants, including one for being on university property illegally. The check showed that she had been reported hanging out at other dorms at least twice. She also was known for being “anti-police,” one report said. The woman was arrested on suspicion of criminal trespassing and taken to a real bed in jail.

OF PHONES AND FALSEHOODS UA AREA JAN. 14, 2:30 P.M.

A UA student caught telling police a pack of lies—including one that implied he had just gotten laid—was arrested after he admitted stealing an iPhone from another student, a UA police report said. Two UA officers were dispatched to break up a fight at a dorm. The fight ended before the officers arrived but a male at the scene told them his new iPhone 5 had been stolen by another student involved in the fight. The accused phone thief told the officers that his accuser had forgotten his phone in the accused thief’s dorm room because he “was high on Xanax and people on Xanax tend to forget things.” He said he then decided to sell the phone so he could buy his own iPhone 5. When police asked to see the phone, the student said he had left it a friend’s residence. The officers then found a bag of what appeared to be marijuana in the student’s room, which prompted the student to claim it had been “planted.” The officers left, but one returned later and found the student shirtless. The student told the officer he had a girl in the room who wasn’t “decent.” Then he admitted that there was no girl in the room. Saying he didn’t want to lead the officer on “a wild goose chase,” he led the officer to a stone on the dorm patio, under which was the stolen iPhone. The subject was booked on suspicion of marijuana possession and false reporting to law enforcement (and, presumably, theft). 12 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

Oathkeeping Absurdity e’ve made a habit of looking at a few of the bills proposed by the state legislature this session on The Range, Tucson Weekly’s roughly-hourly update, but one keeps sticking with me: HB 2467. H.B. 2467, for the uninitiated (slash, those who don’t read The Range for whatever reason), is aimed at reintroducing the idea of patriotism to our apparently God-and-Country-less schools, by requiring students to recite an oath to the head teacher or principal of their school before they can take their high school diploma. The oath, which is straight-up ripped from the oath of office recited by members of Congress (minus phrasing about entering an office), reads as follows: I, _________, DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR THAT I WILL SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST ALL ENEMIES, FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC, THAT I WILL BEAR TRUE FAITH AND ALLEGIANCE TO THE SAME; THAT I TAKE THIS OBLIGATION FREELY, WITHOUT ANY MENTAL RESERVATION OR PURPOSE OF EVASION; AND THAT I WILL WELL AND FAITHFULLY DISCHARGE THESE DUTIES; SO HELP ME GOD. If you’re paying attention, you might notice a few conflicts here. For one, this oath completely disenfranchises atheists, which isn’t exactly new, but which is something that folks should likely be paying more attention to these days as the community of those who do not ascribe to religion is fast growing in this country. For another, there’s the little matter of requiring people to take an oath that literally says that the oath-taker has not been coerced into the oath. Seriously, this is the kind of nationalistic, jingoistic, ridiculous legislation that we haven’t seen since Cold War times, when the words “under God” were dropped into the Pledge of Allegiance to differentiate our freely religious nation from the godless heathens that the Soviet nations were composed of. The terrible part is that, not only did these legislators find this bill necessary, but they’re getting paid to put these things together. But hey, maybe these legislators are right: the way to improve an educational system that’s been ranked among the worst in the country could be a law that contradicts the language of the oath it requires.

COMMENT OF THE WEEK “If the county and city government stays out of the sports, Tucson will do well. It is the county and city leaders that killed spring training in Tucson. I think some of guys even went to Japan a few times and those trips failed.” TucsonWeekly.com commenter Sam Smith on what he thinks will keep the success of professional soccer alive and well in Tucson (“Kicking Success Around,” Cover Story, Jan. 24).

BEST OF WWW In case you haven’t noticed, We Got Cactus, our music blog, has been housing some incredibly strong content over the past few weeks. From previews of upcoming festivals, to concert reviews, to interviews with bands, to great on-going features, we’ve got posts coming in on a regular basis. Make sure to check out Michael Petitti’s “Attractive Nuisance” from the past two weeks, and if you’ve got tips or ideas for things we could better cover, feel free to let us know.

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THE WEEK ON OUR BLOGS On The Range, we mocked the poetic stylings of James Franco; “congratulated” Tucson Electric Power on a less-than-inspired logo design; watched an unbanned ’90s cartoon; got pretty damn excited about the re-opening of Borderlands Brewing; considered the future job prospects of an overly amorous teacher’s aide; got lunch with Seis Curbside Kitchen and Catering; gave out a collection of books; admired an illustration of a battle between Prince and Michael Jackson; talked about a few bills that have recently caught our attention; talked a fair amount about soccer in Tucson; and more! On We Got Cactus, we checked out a music video from the rising stars and male-genital-autographers in Blessthefall; looked at the Coachella ’13 lineup; previewed Phoenix’s McDowell Mountain Music Festival; entertained the (nowconfirmed) rumors about the Postal Service reuniting; and got excited about the upcoming visit of the Black Angels!

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ELECTION 2013: INCUMBENT FEVER

PEER. Patterson says his contacts within the Game and Fish Department describe an agency where morale is abysmal and shepherding the interests of hunting groups remains paramount. That’s hardly new; as a legislator, Patterson floated efforts to change the name of the Game and Fish Department to the Arizona Department of Wildlife. “The reason I did that was to remind them that their responsibility was for all wildlife,” he says, “not just game and sports fish. Unfortunately, that message seems to be lost. “A lot of hunters are pro-predator and want to see habitat protection. But the commission doesn’t want to hear from those conservation voices. They want to hear from the more exploitative side,” such as professional hunting guides and organizations. For a case in point, Patterson and other conservationists note what they consider the commission’s ongoing hostility toward Mexican gray wolf reintroduction. Given that there are probably fewer than 50 Mexican gray wolves in the wild, folks were a tad surprised in 2010 when the commission threw its weight behind yanking the animals from federal endangered species protection. Commissioners have also opposed establishing critical habitat for the border jaguar, despite at least five Southern Arizona sightings of the big cats in recent years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service initially sided with Arizona in opposing habitat designation—until it was ordered by a federal judge to change course. Following a lawsuit by Defenders of Wildlife and the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity, the late U.S. District Judge John Roll demanded that the agency develop a recovery plan and designate critical habitat. Last fall, Fish and Wildlife finally proposed some 1,300 square miles in Arizona and New Mexico as habitat critical for jaguar recovery. That range includes the site of a Canadian company’s proposed strip mine in the Santa Rita Mountains south of Tucson. Today, Game and Fish Commissioner Jack Husted remains among the most vocal critics of critical habitat. Known for his cowboy hats and trenchant commentary, Husted hails from Springerville in northeastern Arizona. Coincidentally, Springerville is perched next to the Mexican gray wolf recovery zone, and opposition to the project there runs deep. Nonetheless, Husted takes issue with folks who call him anti-predator. “But what I am against is allowing the emotion involved in predators to make habitat management decisions we need to manage all wildlife,” he says. “I don’t want to let

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n an era when life splashes spontaneously across YouTube, the Arizona Game and Fish Commission is still grappling with dot-matrix. Consider that the commission does not stockpile digital videos of its monthly meetings, where sweeping management decisions about Arizona’s wildlife are pondered. That means folks who can’t ditch work to attend these Phoenix parleys—or watch them on live webcasts—must cool their heels until the minutes are released months later. Or they can submit a public records request for audio recordings. The digital files are dispatched in five-minute increments, making it impossible to know who’s saying what. Then again, perhaps this is limited access by design. Which leads us to the policies of a commission that critics consider far more concerned with nourishing the hunting industry than protecting all wildlife—including endangered species that once roamed Arizona. This is particularly true, they say, when it comes to big predators such as the border jaguar and Mexican gray wolf. That’s not much of a reach. Most if not all current commissioners are longtime members of the NRA and influential hunting groups such as the Arizona Desert Bighorn Sheep Society and Safari Club International. The Safari Club, which operates the International Wildlife Museum in Tucson, has been linked to unethical hunting practices and efforts to weaken endangered species protections. Nor is this lopsided margin surprising given that hunting groups three years ago successfully pushed for creation of the Arizona Game and Fish Commission Appointment Recommendation Board. The board screens potential commissioners before submitting three finalists for the governor’s consideration. Among the board members is former AGF commissioner Sue Chilton, a Southern Arizona rancher notorious for her vitriolic opposition to reintroduction of large predators such as the Mexican gray wolf. It also includes Hays Gilstrap, another former commissioner and husband to Suzanne Gilstrap, who happens to be the lobbyist for a group called Arizona Sportsmen for Wildlife Conservation. Suzanne Gilstrap’s group was not only the prime mover behind creation of the recommendation board, but also subsequently forwarded her spouse as its preferred appointee. Critics contend that this cozy club skews Arizona’s wildlife policies. Among those detractors is Daniel Patterson, a former state lawmaker and currently Southwest director with Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, or

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Daniel Patterson: “A lot of hunters are propredator and want to see habitat protection.” the wolf or the mountain lion or any other predator get any special treatment, just because he’s got a lot of followers on Twitter.” That also applies to the jaguar, says Husted, who downplays the District Court’s habitat decision. “A judge telling U.S. Fish and Wildlife to go do something doesn’t change the Arizona Game and Fish position,” he says. Among comments submitted to U.S. Fish and Wildlife in October, the Arizona Game and Fish Department argued that critical habitat was not warranted “because habitat essential to the conservation of the jaguar as a species does not exist in either Arizona or New Mexico under any scientifically credible definition of that term.” Environmentalists call that ridiculous. “The jaguar evolved in the United States before it was the United States,” says Michael Robinson of the Center for Biological Diversity. “The jaguar was native to this continent before it expanded its range to the south. They were found from the Carolinas to California. The question is whether we are going to take any steps to protect a tiny bit of habitat on the edge of what was a huge swath of habitat.” Sergio Avila is a wildlife biologist with the conservation group Sky Island Alliance, which has photographed several jaguars just south of the border in Sonora, Mexico. “In terms of the jaguar it doesn’t really matter if you’re in Mexico or the United States,” he says. “The point is, jaguars are here. We have records of jaguars going back over 100 years, and we have records of jaguars going back just a month ago. It’s time to learn from our past mistakes and do something in terms of recovery of this species.” Still, Game and Fish commissioners certainly don’t seem to consider past decisions as mistakes. And given the difficulty of accessing details about their earlier meetings, an observer might conclude that these gentlemen much prefer making decisions in an echo chamber of the like-minded. “I’ve got to say that the sportsmen or whatever groups have been coming and sitting in front of us for years,” Husted says. “I guess to spend departmental resources to make it easy for everybody, we could get pretty carried away.”

Barring an unexpected change in state law, three seats on the Tucson City Council are up for grabs this year. Newly minted Democrat Steve Kozachik, who jumped from the Republican Party earlier this month, filed last week to run for the midtown Ward 6 seat. “There are a lot of really important things that are underway,” says Kozachik, who wants to continue his work on water-policy issues, budget challenges, downtown redevelopment, the future of the Broadway widening and firearms regulation. “This isn’t just about filling potholes.” Democrat Richard Fimbres, who is completing his first term in south-central Ward 5, filed to run back in early January. And in north-central Ward 3, Karin Uhlich filed her paperwork on Jan. 18. “We’re at a real crossroads in Tucson in terms of moving toward a better pattern for growth,” says Uhlich, who wants to continue working on water policy, the issues related to infill development and improvements to the transit system. So far, none of the Democrats has drawn a Republican opponent. Kozachik made a few waves last week when he floated the idea that the city could save some money if it just skipped the election this year, given that the state passed a law last year that said that all city elections must occur in the fall of even-numbered years to coincide with presidential and gubernatorial elections. “One way we could save about $2M this year has to do with the state and their consolidated elections bill—the one that places all elections in even numbered years,” Kozachik wrote in his newsletter. “They have to go back and fix the language this session since we are due to have an election this fall. There are options they can consider, some of which include having us run for one- or three-year terms this fall, or skipping this year’s election altogether and synchronizing us in a 2014 election. If left to me, I’d certainly opt for that. I believe people are just suffering election-cycle fatigue.” Kozachik walked back that proposal earlier this week, saying he didn’t want to skip this year’s election and was just trying to make the point that the Legislature had passed a law that left no direction to the cities about how to structure the elections this year. He told The Skinny that he fully expects to run for office this year. The city of Tucson is fighting the new law in court, arguing that the city’s charter authority allows it to schedule elections when it wants. By Jim Nintzel

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TUCSON CITY COUNCILMAN STEVE KOZACHIK HAS WHAT HE CONSIDERS A PRETTY common-sense proposal: If people are going to buy firearms at gun shows at the Tucson Convention Center, they ought to have to pass a background check. “We’re going to require a background check on every purchase made at gun shows that occur on city property, including person-to-person sales,” Kozachik said. “The only way we can affirm whether or not a purchase is legal is to do a background check.” The City Council is scheduled to take up Kozachik’s proposal at what promises to be lively study session next Tuesday, Feb. 5. If the council moves forward with the plan, the city will be testing the legal limits of how background checks can be done under federal and state law. The so-called “gun show loophole”—which allows the sale of any kind of legal firearm to anyone, with no background check, if the seller is not a federally licensed firearms dealer—has long been a thorny question. Republican Sen. John McCain introduced legislation in 2001 to require background checks at gun shows, but he couldn’t muster support to get it out of the Senate.

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ing the weapon. “They can work that out with the people doing the lease on the show or work it out with someone who has a license,” Kozachik said. “That’s their problem, how they achieve it.” Todd Rathner, an NRA board member who fought the city’s proposal for background checks a decade ago, said requiring person-toperson background checks is complicated—and warned it might run counter to state law. “This has been discussed over and over again,” Rathner said. “Federal law doesn’t allow a dealer to just set up and do a background check. And the cops can’t do it. I don’t know if that’s going to be part of the discussion or not, but they’re just spinning their wheels.” City Attorney Mike Rankin said the city can require background checks as part of the lease, according to a 2002 Arizona Court of Appeals decision that backed up the city’s legal right to require the checks, based on its right to manage its property as it sees fit. Rankin conceded that the Arizona Legislature has changed the law since that decision in an effort to limit the city’s ability to require the background checks, but he said “those changes don’t override our charter authority, which comes from the (Arizona) Constitution and not from the Legislature.” Rankin “wouldn’t be surprised” if the city was taken to court by gun show organizers or the NRA if the council votes to require the background checks next week, but Kozachik said he wasn’t afraid of a lawsuit. “Let them sue us,” Kozachik said. “If these guys want to make the argument that it’s a good thing for someone to walk up to somebody on the street, give them a pile of cash and walk off with a gun—if they want to make that argument, go ahead and make it. They will lose that in a court of law, they will lose that in the court of public opinion, and they will even further alienate themselves from being able to have a reasonable conversation about this issue in the community.” But Rathner warned that even if the city could require background checks on person-toperson gun sales, there are still legal wrinkles. Federally licensed firearms dealers only have access to the NICS database when they are continued on Page 17

On the Firing Line Tucsonans are in the center of the nation’s new fight against gun violence BY JIM NINTZEL, jnintzel@tucsonweekly.com WHEN PAM SIMON RETIRED from Gabby Giffords’ District 8 congressional office in the summer of 2012, she shared a rare distinction: She was one of the few congressional aides who have ever taken a bullet in the line of duty. Simon was among the 19 people shot on Jan. 8, 2011, when a deranged gunman opened fire on Giffords’ Congress on Your Corner event. Six people were killed: Giffords’ 31-year-old aide, Gabe Zimmerman; 9-year-old Christina-Taylor Green; U.S. District Judge John Roll; and retirees Dorwin Stoddard, Dorothy Morris and Phyllis Schneck. Another 13 people were wounded, including Simon, who had a bullet pass through her chest, miraculously miss any major organs, and lodge in her backside. (When President Barack Obama asked her where the bullet had ended up while visiting Tucson in the days after the shooting, Simon told him she wasn’t going to let him touch the spot.) Once she stepped down from her job in the congressional office, Simon had the freedom to join a group of fellow Tucsonans who had been speaking out against gun violence with the support of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, an initiative spearheaded by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and supported by Tucson Mayor Jonathan Rothschild. Patricia Maisch, who prevented the gunman from reloading by wrestling from him an extended magazine packed with more than 30 bullets, has been calling for limits on magazines that hold dozens of bullets and for stronger background checks. Roxanna Green, who lost her 9-year-old daughter, Christina-Taylor, taped a TV ad asking that Washington politicians stand up to the gun lobby.

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As federal law now stands, only federally licensed firearms dealers are required to do background checks when they sell firearms. Unlicensed dealers, whether they sell dozens of weapons at gun shows, peddle firearms on the Internet or just sell an old shotgun to a neighbor, don’t have to perform background checks. In fact, they can’t do background checks because they don’t have access to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, a national database that contains the names of people who can’t own guns. The City Council tried to force all gun show sales to go through background checks back in 2001, but ultimately abandoned the idea after state lawmakers amended state law in an effort to thwart the city. Kozachik first riled up some of Tucson’s Second Amendment enthusiasts with a program that allowed people to turn over old guns in exchange for Safeway gift cards earlier this month. (Last week, a group of Republican state lawmakers, including Rep. Adam Kwasman of Oro Valley, introduced legislation that blocks future buybacks by requiring that guns surrendered to cities and towns be resold to gun dealers.) Kozachik is diving right back into the fight with his call to require that anyone who buys a firearm at a TCC gun show undergo a background check. Kozachik believes the city is on solid legal ground if it requires background checks as part of the lease to use the TCC, even though state law prohibits cities and towns from enacting gun regulations that are more strict than state law. He doesn’t want Tucson police to be involved in doing the background check; instead, he said it should be the responsibility of the person sell-

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Over the summer, Simon taped her own TV ad as part of a campaign that called on people to “demand a plan” to curb gun violence during the presidential campaign. The effort didn’t have much impact; the topic of gun rights was off the table in the presidential debates. “Throughout the campaign, we talked about gay marriage,” Simon said. “We talked about choice. We talked about everything, and the word gun was never mentioned. It was a taboo subject. And it is no longer.” Indeed it is not. The political landscape changed on Dec. 14, when a 20-year-old madman slaughtered 20 children and six adults in Newtown, Conn. The horror of the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School has catapulted the issue of gun violence to the top of the national agenda. Simon has met with Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss alternatives for firearms regulations and was in Washington last week when Sen. Dianne Feinstein rolled out her legislative package to renew the ban on assault weapons and extended magazines. Feinstein wants to ban the sale, transfer, importation and manufacturing of more than 100 specific firearms and semi-automatic accessories that hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. The proposed law would expand the definition of assault weapons and allow people to keep semi-automatic weapons they already own as long as they register them. Andrew Arulanandam, the National Rifle Association’s public affairs director, released a statement last week calling Feinstein’s legislation “disappointing but not surprising. … The American people know gun bans do not work and we are confident Congress will reject Senator Feinstein’s wrong-headed approach.” Feinstein’s legislation came just a week after President Obama released a list of 23 executive actions designed to reduce gun violence. The proposals included more funding for mental-health treatment; making it easier for states to report mentally ill people to the national background-check system; training law enforcement in how to deal with active-shooter situations; tracking more data about gun crime; and nominating a permanent director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which has had only acting directors since 2006 (when a change in law required Senate approval before someone could take over the agency). When he released the list of executive actions, Obama called on Congress to expand background checks and to enact a new ban on assault weapons and extended magazines. Simon is encouraged by the new push for gun regulation in Washington. “I am very excited that there is movement on Capitol Hill and I realize there is a long

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NOISE continued from Page 15 selling a weapon, so if an unlicensed dealer wanted to ask a licensed dealer to do a background check, the licensed dealer would have to buy the gun from the unlicensed dealer. The licensed dealer would then do a background check to ensure the buyer was not a prohibited possessor. Rathner offered this what-if scenario: Suppose the buyer doesn’t pass the background check. The gun now legally belongs to the licensed dealer. And it’s possible, when he tries to sell it back to the unlicensed dealer, that that person might not pass a background check either, leaving the licensed dealer stuck with the firearm. “Now the dealer has a legal issue where he can’t transfer the gun to either person,” Rathner said. Kozachik said convoluted scenarios like that are another example of why the federal law on background checks needs reform. “That’s the tangled web you weave for yourself when you continue to consider these things untouchable community assets, as Todd Rathner calls them,” Kozachik said. “These guys tangle themselves up in these rules because they won’t engage in a rational conversation about this stuff, and then they claim the rules are too much of a mess and you can’t do anything about them.”

KOZACHIK IS CERTAINLY RIGHT ABOUT one thing: Background checks are popular with the public. A recent New York Times/CBS poll showed that an overwhelming 92 percent of those surveyed supported universal background checks for anyone who wants to purchase a gun. A Reuters/Ipsos poll put support for universal background checks at 86 percent. When President Barack Obama released his legislative agenda on firearms earlier this month, the plan called for much broader background checks: “Congress should pass legislation that goes beyond just closing the ‘gun show loophole’ to require background checks for all firearm sales, with limited, common-sense exceptions for cases like certain transfers between family members and temporary transfers for hunting and sporting purposes.” Gabby Giffords and Mark Kelly, who recently launched the political action committee Americans for Responsible Solutions to push for ways to reduce gun violence, put background checks at the top of their agenda. “We think that part of the responsibility of being a gun owner is to have a background check before you purchase a gun,” Kelly told the Weekly. “I bought a gun from Walmart a few months ago. I had to fill out some paperwork and I had to stand there for about 30 minutes. If that’s what all responsible gun owners must do to prevent criminals or the mentally ill from having easy access to firearms, well, I think that’s what we need to do.” At the other end of the spectrum, some gun advocates consider background checks useless. Charles Heller, the spokesman for the gunrights organization Arizona Citizens Defense League, said the checks “don’t work.” Heller argued that the Tucson shooter and continued on Page 18

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ON THE SECOND anniversary of the Tucson rampage, Giffords and her husband, retired astronaut Mark Kelly, announced they were forming Americans for Responsible Solutions, a politicalaction committee dedicated to advocating for gun regulation and supporting candidates who back their agenda. When the couple announced the formation of Americans for Responsible Solution, they noted that even after Giffords was shot through the head, her fellow members of Congress ignored the issue of gun violence. “In response to a horrific series of shootings that has sown terror in our communities, victimized tens of thousands of Americans, and left one of its own bleeding and near death in a Tucson parking lot, Congress has done something quite extraordinary—nothing at all,” Giffords and Kelly wrote in a USA Today op-ed. Kelly told the Weekly that he wants to see Congress pass “some common-sense gun-violence legislation—stuff like a universal background check.” He’d also like to see regulation of extended clips, such as the one used by the Tucson shooter, as well as restrictions on automatic weapons. “For a very long time, the gun lobby has had a lot of influence on Capitol Hill,” said Kelly, who was scheduled to testify on gun violence before the U.S. Senate this week. “They will continue to have a tremendous amount of influence, but I think what happened in Newtown was the clarion call that we just can’t put out a statement every time one of these things happens. First of all, they’re happening too frequently. And it’s unacceptable to have 20 first-graders killed in their classrooms, along with six of their teachers and administrators, and for us as a nation to do nothing about it. That is unacceptable.” Congressman Ron Barber, the former Giffords aide who was shot twice on Jan. 8, 2011, has recently become much more vocal about the regulation of firearms. He told the Weekly he was inspired to act by the Newtown shootings, too. “Two days after the shooting in Newtown, I was reading the paper and I saw the photograph of one of the children,” Barber said. “She looked just like the youngest of my granddaughters. Looking at that photograph, I saw my grandkids looking back at me and I started sobbing. I just broke down. … It could be anyone’s children, anyone’s grandchildren. How can we face our children or our grandchildren if we don’t do anything about this?” Barber was nearly killed after he took bullets to the face and to the upper thigh on Jan. 8. He lost sensation in his left leg below the knee and has to walk with a brace. But his congressional campaigns did not focus on the attack and, until the Newtown shootings, he spent more time talking about improving mental-health treatment than gun control. Barber acknowledged that passing new

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Pam Simon meets with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama. restrictions on firearms will be challenging. “The NRA has been a powerful political force and they will continue to be,” Barber said. “But we’ve had a change in the national mood about mass shootings. What happened in Newtown has really changed the picture dramatically. I’m not underestimating how tough a battle this will be, but I think the public is behind us on this.” Tucsonan Todd Rathner, who serves on the NRA board, said that he doesn’t believe restrictions on assault rifles such as the one used in the shooting rampage at an Aurora, Colo., theatre in July 2012 that left 12 dead and 58 wounded, would do much to prevent shooting rampages. “We had a ban on so-called assault weapons for 10 years, from 1994 to 2004, and from the National Institute of Justice’s own figures, it resulted in no reduction in crime,” Rathner said. “Columbine happened during that time, as did other mass shootings. So the exact same ban that they are trying to reinstate had no appreciable effect on crime. Why should we punish law-abiding citizens when there’s going to be no effect on crime?” Rathner is likewise skeptical about reducing the size of magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. He estimates there are hundreds of millions of high-capacity magazines already out there, so unless the government is going to confiscate all of them, criminals and mass shooters will still be able to get them through the secondhand marketplace. “The logic here is: We’re going to tell lawabiding citizens that they cannot have a magazine over 10 rounds in their firearm when we know that lunatics like Jared Loughner will not obey the law and use whatever-capacity magazines in their guns,” Rathner said. “It makes absolutely no sense. Banning the future production of them is not going to affect what’s already out there.” But Barber has no doubt that if the Tucson shooter had a magazine that held less than 10 rounds, fewer people would have been shot. Barber said the gunman was able to shoot 19 people in less than 20 seconds, but when he 18 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

stopped to reload, fast-acting citizens were able to knock him down and wrest the gun away from him before he could put another magazine in his pistol. “I’ve seen what an extended magazine can do in a very short period of time,” said Barber, who is serving as vice chairman of the Congressional Taskforce to Reduce Gun Violence. “The images of Gabby being shot, of Gabe (Zimmerman) dying, of John Roll dying, each of them on either side of me, will never go away. “That kind of mass murder has to be dealt with, and the only way we can deal with it is decreasing the size of magazines so that they can’t have that kind of firepower,” Barber continued. “We’re never going to stop all gun violence. It would be great if we could, but we have to do something to reduce the magnitude of these mass shootings and do something to give people a chance to get away or intercept the shooter.” Barber, drawing on his experience dealing with mental illness during his career as director of the Southern Arizona office of the state’s Department of Developmental Disabilities, continues to stress the importance of increasing mental-health treatment as part of curbing gun violence. Barber was pleased to see that Obama’s package of executive actions included a push for what Barber calls “mental-health first aid.” Barber pitched the program, which is already under way in Southern Arizona, to Vice President Joe Biden during a meeting earlier this month. The program, which mental-health advocates in Southern Arizona have been developing, teaches people how to identify mental illness and how to get help. More than 1,400 people have been through the training in Pima County. “Basically, what the training does is teach people what mental illness looks like and what kind of treatment services are available and what you would do in the case of an emergency,” said Barber, who has introduced the Mental Health First Aid Act, which would provide funding to expand the program to more states. “If someone has a psychotic break, you need to know how to

handle that.” The question of preventing mentally ill people from acquiring firearms is a rare area where Rathner and Barber agree. Rathner said that only 12 states have agreed to incorporate mental-health records with the NICS background-check system. “The mental-health records from most of the country have not been implemented,” Rathner said. “There’s no excuse for any state not to do it. We don’t report it and that’s absurd.” Too many people who belong on the NCIS list of prohibited possessors never get there, according to Barber. In Arizona, each county has a different system for reporting prohibited possessors to the NCIS. “We know that the current system doesn’t work very well,” Barber said. “We’ve seen many flaws in reporting in Arizona. So, in addition to universal background checks, we really need to shore up the individual county and state reporting to the national registry.” Southern Arizona’s other congressman, Democrat Raul Grijalva, praised the Obama administration for “taking on the NRA,” but he expects a major fight in the House of Representatives. “It’s going to be an intense battle in Congress,” Grijalva said. “The NRA is going to fight this tooth and nail, as we saw from their recent ad with the president’s children.” And the NRA has plenty of supporters among congressional Republicans. U.S. Rep. Trent Franks, a Republican who represents Maricopa County, said earlier this month that Obama’s executive actions amounted to “plans to attempt to weaken the Second Amendment.” “Much to Mr. Obama’s chagrin, ours is not a government run by fiat,” Franks added in his prepared statement. “The American people have shown quite clearly that they will not simply roll over while this administration seeks to undercut our founding principles in pursuit of its preferred European model of government.” Earlier this month, Pam Simon traveled to Newtown with Roxanna Green to talk with families who had lost loved ones in last month’s shooting rampage. She told the Weekly that when she met parents who had lost their child in the shooting, “I found I almost could not talk as they held a picture of their precious 5-year-old. I just can’t even fathom what they must be going through.” She also met with members of the Newtown community who have launched the Sandy Hook Promise, a nonprofit organization that’s dedicated to both raising money for the survivors and advocating for the prevention of gun violence and support for programs for the mentally ill. “We were there just to be supportive of the families and to find out if there was any way we could continue to be of support,” Simon said. Simon has been traveling quite a bit in her new role as advocate for new gun legislation. She is starting to meet more people who have been inspired to push for new gun regulations by surviving mass shootings. “We’re starting to form a bit of a community,” Simon said. “We are perfectly well aware that it’s going to be a heavy lift, but we’re in this for the long haul. As I always tell people: There’s nothing like a bullet in the chest to get your attention on an issue.”

other mass-murderers have passed background checks and acquired guns legally. “The whole idea of a background check is so stupid,” Heller said. “They simply do not prevent crime. And if you can’t pass a background check, look at what happened with (Newtown, Conn., shooter Adam) Lanza. That just shows you what gun laws do—they’ll just go steal one and kill somebody to get their gun. Bad people are criminals or they’re crazy and you’re not going to stop them from getting guns. The only thing you can do is stop them at the scene of the crime.” But as a push for tighter gun laws moves to center stage in Washington, some Republican lawmakers aren’t ruling out tighter background checks. Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, who was sworn into office earlier this month, is willing to consider reforms to the background-check laws. Flake spokeswoman Genevieve Rozansky told the Weekly via email that Flake “has always believed that guns should be kept out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill. He is open to the discussion of broader background checks.” Congressman Raul Grijalva called the Obama administration’s push for universal background checks on all gun sales “essential.” But Grijalva admitted that passing legislation to require background checks on every single gun sale was unlikely. “Is that what’s going to end up happening? Probably not,” Grijalva said. “But the universality of it makes sense and it’s the broadest way to close that loophole at gun shows.” Rathner said last week that the NRA didn’t yet have a position on background-check reform because there wasn’t a specific legislative plan to discuss. But he said that creating a universal background check where every gun transfer is monitored by the government is, in sheer practical terms, a complex challenge. “It’s not as simple as people think it is because of how the system works,” Rathner says. “Do you really want people to be able to do background checks on each other? For private citizens to be able to transfer firearms between each other, there would have to be a federal database. … And a national registry is a privacy issue.” Congressman Ron Barber, the former Giffords aide who was shot twice in the Tucson shooting rampage, has said that he supports universal background checks. But he concedes that the question of whether to extend backBarber ground checks to all person-to-person gun transfers is a tall order. “I don’t know what exemptions we’ll have when we get to the legislation, but I think you have to be realistic about it, about the grandfather who passes a gun along to his grandson, or the neighbor who sells to his neighbor,” Barber says. “Pawn shops are required to be licensed and gun shops are required to be licensed and I think that anyone who sells in the public arena needs to be licensed and do background checks. I don’t know about the neighbor-to-neighbor buy yet. We’ll have to think that through.”

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Back in the day, the Desert Rose Band was one of country music’s best acts. Taking influences from rock and mixing them with the twang of a pedal steel guitar, the Southern California six-piece had plenty of singles topping Billboard’s country music charts, as well as three Academy of Country Music awards and several Grammy nominations. That was back in the ’80s, and some would argue that the Desert Rose Band sounds just as good today. Despite a breakup in 1993, the group hit the road again in 2008 for a few shows across two years before taking another indefinite hiatus. But Desert Rose is touring again and the band will be in Tucson this Saturday, Feb. 2, for an acoustic set at the Fox Tucson Theatre. Guitarist John Jorgenson indicated that “tour” might be a strong word to describe the handful of shows that the band will do this year, adding that the members only get together when they happen to be free from other projects at the same time. “None of us have made this our new career or anything; we all still do quite a bit of other things,” he said by phone from Anaheim, Calif. “It’s a very special thing that only comes every once in a while, and everybody is still healthy and plays well, and that’s often not the case with bands.” Jorgenson became one of the band’s founding members after meeting lead singer Chris Hillman at a trade show in California in 1985. After a few months of touring as an acoustic act and opening for the likes of Dan Fogelberg, Jorgenson Desert Rose Band suggested they expand their sound by adding drums and a pedal steel. Two years later, the band had been signed by a record label. Hillman, the band’s foremost songwriter, is largely known for his involvement with the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, and he’s also worked with artists including Tom Petty, Emmylou Harris and Sheryl Crow. The other band members, including bassist Bill Bryson and banjoist/guitarist Herb Pedersen, have played with groups in a variety of musical genres. When Jorgenson isn’t playing lead licks for the Desert Rose Band, he leads the John Jorgenson quintet, a Gypsy jazz group. He’s also been a member of Elton John’s band for six years. Jorgenson added that Hillman’s Byrds influence still remains in the music as does Pedersen’s bluegrass roots, which make for interesting vocal harmonies. When the band decided to play an acoustic show, it was this harmonizing and the chance for intimacy with the audience that they had in mind. It also gives them a chance to play the way they did when they first formed. “It’s how we started out,” Jorgenson said. “We really like it … and

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we’re able to do a lot more dynamics with the vocals.” Jorgenson couldn’t remember exactly when the band last played in Tucson, but he’s sure this won’t be its first appearance here. Playing in the Southwest, he said, gives the band members an athome feeling that other parts of the country don’t always provide. “It feels almost like home,” he said. “We feel comfortable. It’s part of our heritage and it’s part of our background, whereas if we go to someplace like New Jersey, it’s almost like we’re somewhere more exotic or something.” Jorgenson said concertgoers can expect to hear hits spanning the band’s career as well as a few Byrds and Flying Burrito Brothers tunes. “The main thing that we always try to focus on is that any song that we do is going to be a really quality song, because the material and what we’re saying with the lyrics is really important to us,” Jorgenson said. “We’re not trying to preach any message or anything like that, it’s just we tend not to do throwaway songs.” After Tucson, the band’s plans include a trip up the East Coast in April, Jorgensen said, and appearances in California and Nashville. “For me, the chance to sing and play with these guys is really special,” he said, “and I look forward to it every time.” The Desert Rose Band’s acoustic concert starts at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress St. Tickets are $23 to $34. A $49 VIP ticket includes preshow appetizers and a drink voucher. Tickets are available online at foxtucsontheatre.org. Kyle Mittan mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

ART Many-Handed Art WintaFresh Graffiti Art Expo Saturday, Feb. 2 Undisputed Fitness 1240 N. Stone Ave. 437-4368

While the artist responsible for hundreds of murals across the nation sometimes escapes notice, the spray can in his hand usually doesn’t. Rock Martinez, a Tucson native and pioneer of the local graffiti art scene, will paint at the WintaFresh Graffiti Art Expo after founding the event five years ago. More than 50 other artists will join Martinez to transform a wall of the Undisputed gym into an eye-catching mural. The graffiti art expo is part of Martinez’s efforts to introduce a broader population to a type of art that is nonconformist by nature. Graffiti artists are hardly strangers to judgment, because their work carries the stigma of being a largely illegal art form. But that’s part of the nature of the genre, Martinez said. “Graffiti was never meant to be a legal art form,” he said. “Throughout the years of evolving and because people were buying into it, somehow it’s just grown.” The expo acts as a celebration of that unique identity, bringing together artists and musical guests of different interests and backgrounds with a common purpose: to coat a blank canvas in colors. “They’re all under one roof and they’re trying to contribute to a bigger picture, something that’s beyond them,” Martinez said. “People are respecting the area, they’re respecting the art, and then they’re giving something that just keeps lasting through any experience.” For the next year, the mural is to remain largely untouched, serving as a landmark for Tucson’s alternative art community. Tucsonans of all ages can participate in raffles, art demonstrations and other live entertainment during the event, which runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is $5. —K.N.

Far left: Jonathan Xavier Inda Left: Moises Orozco works on a sculpture piece. Below: Tommy Tedesco, director Denny Tedesco’s father, and a Wrecking Crew guitarist.

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There are many misconceptions about immigration laws and border security, according to Javier Duran, director of the UA Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry. Ideas that the border isn’t secure enough or that people who should be deported are not are among some of the misconceptions Duran hopes will be cleared up at “‘Criminal Aliens’ and the Policing of Immigration,” a lecture by Jonathan Xavier Inda, associate chairman of the Latino/Latina Studies Department at the University of Illinois. The lecture is part of the Beyond Boundaries Series, which the Confluencenter started in 2011 to integrate ideas, speakers and publications for a variety of topics. Tucson is especially affected by immigration laws because of its proximity to the Mexican border. Undocumented immigrants are not always deported, Duran explained; they are sometimes taken to prison. The “policing” of immigration refers to the many things that can potentially happen to someone who is caught in the U.S. illegally. The lecture will also touch on the notion that some people are deportable even if the government is taking no action, and how that affects a community. Immigration is an emotional topic, Duran said, which means that people need facts to make an informed judgment. Inda has focused on the sociopolitical impact of immigration and the mechanics of deportation in some of his previous works and teachings. Duran said he hopes the lecture will enrich the local conversation about immigration laws. “How do we engage in a serious conversation about people’s rights?” he asked. The event is free. —S.C.

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Karl Whitaker recently delved into 3-D metal printing, a fairly new and also a quicker way to create sculptures. “Digital to physical” is what Whitaker calls it. Whitaker is a local artist who usually prefers to draw, but he also likes to bring his drawings to life through paintings, sculpture and other mediums. Lately, he has asked other artists to scan multiple sides of one of their sculptures and send the images to him. Whitaker then takes the image files and sends them to be printed on a 3-D metal printer. The process takes a few days and works well enough that Whitaker can have a smaller version of a sculpture currently in New Mexico displayed at this year’s Tucson Sculpture Festival. One or two of these 3-D sculptures will be displayed at the festival this year. Whitaker is running the event with the help of mostly local organizations. Whitaker got involved with the Tucson Sculpture Festival last year and liked it so much he decided to help run it this year to ensure it survived. Whitaker said the Sculpture Resource Center in Tucson has helped him turn his artwork ideas into reality. “I could do things when they’re around that I couldn’t do by myself,” Whitaker said. Anarchestra, a band in which one person plays all of the instruments, will perform at the event. Admission is free. The sculptures in the festival will be on display until Friday, Feb. 15. — S.C.

3 and 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 7 The Loft Cinema 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777; loftcinema.com

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Suzanne Dhruv The co-founder of the Ironwood Tree Experience has dedicated her life to preserving the Sonoran Desert and to helping teenagers. She started the program with her husband, Eric Dhruv, in 2005 as a way for teenagers to enjoy nature. Ironwood Tree Experience has many events for teens who want to experience the desert, including a free urban nature walk along the Rillito at 4:30 p.m. every Thursday. For more information, including the meeting place, call 319-9868, ext. 7, or visit www.ironwoodtreeexperience.org.

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What exactly is Ironwood Tree Experience? It’s a nonprofit organization for teenagers to engage with their community through experiences in nature. When and how did it get started? My husband, Eric Dhruv, and I started this program in 2005 as a sponsored program of Prescott College. How did you come to work with Prescott College? My husband and I both received our master’s of art in environmental studies at Prescott College, which has a Tucson center, so we did our master’s program through the Tucson center. Prescott College is a liberal arts school for environmental and social justice. When we graduated, we thought we wanted to do environmental programs with teenagers. So we asked the president if he would allow us to run this nonprofit program through the college. We wrote a proposal and the college accepted us as a sponsored program. Where did the idea for Ironwood Tree Experience come from? Both my husband and I have studied ecology, actually Sonoran Desert ecology, and we’ve been very active in hiking, backpacking, camping, but also doing conservation projections or environmental improvement projects. We also have worked with teenagers for about 20 years. When we were gradu22 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

ating from college we started working with teens in environmental projects and then we just kind of continued. What inspired you to work with teenagers? We found that when we worked with teenagers outdoors in natural places, they really came alive. They were passionate, they were interested, they were active, they had great stories to tell about being outdoors and wanting to be outdoors. We just saw the energy coming from the teen population, that, they too, wanted to experience nature and have a relationship with the natural world. There were not many opportunities for teenagers to do that in Tucson. Although we have had many wonderful programs for little kids or for college-aged kids, we really wanted to work with that teen population and give them experience in rock climbing, hiking, backpacking, camping, and also doing conservation projects. Where does the Ironwood Tree Experience take place? We do it throughout the Sonoran Desert, which goes into Mexico and also throughout Arizona. It’s really the Sonoran Desert region, but we operate in Tucson. What do you hope people get out of attending the Rillito nature walks? We hope that people have an understanding that nature is all around us. So even in the urban environment, we really can step right outside our

door and be in nature. So we can explore and discover birds, mammals, water in the desert, plants, plants that provide food—all right here in our city environment. How long have you done the walks? For about one month. But we’ve been doing other urban projects for seven years. What other events does Ironwood Tree Experience offer? We have EcoPrograms that take place in natural Sonoran Desert areas for teenagers. We also have urban conservation projects called GreenLots and KidsCorridor. What are they about? Improving the environment in your neighborhoods. So, planting trees, collecting rainwater, harvesting from desert plants and really greening urban spaces. What’s your favorite part of these events? I like the opportunity of being active outdoors enjoying the Sonoran Desert. What has been the most rewarding part of your work? Collaborating with amazing environmental organizations and … getting teenagers connected to organizations in environmental science, in conservation, in education, and just building partnerships that create more benefits for teenagers in those areas.

AMERICAN INDIAN EXPOSITION Quality Inn Flamingo. 1300 N. Stone Ave. 770-1910. An exhibit of crafts and other items for sale continues through Sunday, Feb. 17. Entertainment, food and blessings also are featured. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; free. Call 622-4900 for more information. CHINESE NEW YEAR FESTIVAL UA Centennial Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 6213364. Performers from the Shaolin Martial Arts, with master Junming Zhao; Chinese stunt performer Zhigang Chen; and classical violist Hongmei Xiao are featured in a celebration of Chinese new year, presented by UA Confucious Institute and the Tucson Sino Choir, at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 3; $12 to $18. Other performers include Sonoran Sound Quartet, Tucson Arizona Boys Chorus, Chinese dancer Lucy Chen and Tucson Sino Dance. Visit uapresents.org for tickets and more info. NATIONAL GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE DAY Fluxx Studio and Gallery. 414 E. Ninth St. 882-0242. Wingspan and Eon present drag performances, music, poetry and workshops from 5 to 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 6; freewill donation. PERFORMING AND FINE ARTS FESTIVAL La Encantada. 2905 E. Skyline Drive. 299-3566. Art, metalwork, locally designed fashion, jewelry, kids’ activities, and live music are featured from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2; and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 3; free. Call 797-3959, or visit laencantadafestival.org for more information. TUCSON GEM, MINERAL AND FOSSIL SHOWCASE An expo featuring museum-quality exhibits and vendors of gems, minerals, fossils, meteorites, beads, art, jewelry and supplies at nearly 40 locations, opens Saturday, Feb. 2, and continues through Sunday, Feb. 17; free. The centerpiece Tucson Gem and Mineral Society show at the Tucson Convention Center opens to the public Thursday through Sunday, Feb. 14 through 17; $10, free for children younger than 15 with a paying adult. Visit visittucson.org for a complete list of shows and locations. WISH UPON A STAR GALA JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort and Spa. 3800 W. Starr Pass Blvd. 792-3500. A gala to benefit the UA Medical Center’s Diamond Children’s and Steele Children’s research center takes place from 6 p.m. to midnight, Saturday, Feb. 2; $225. Music is provided by the Walkens. Call 694-1324, or email richelle.litteer@ uahealth.com for tickets and more information.

OUT OF TOWN TUBAC FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS Exit 34 on Interstate 19 South. Tubac. Booths representing 175 juried visiting artists and artisans line the streets of Tubac from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily, Wednesday through Sunday, Feb. 6 through 10; free, $6 parking. Festival foods, free rides on a horse-drawn trolley and roving entertainers also are featured. Call 3982704, or visit tubacaz.com for more information.

UPCOMING COCHISE COUNTY COWBOY POETRY AND MUSIC GATHERING Buena High School. 5225 Buena High School Blvd. Fort Huachuca. Arizona’s Western cowboy heritage is celebrated with performances by nationally known cowboy poets and musicians from Friday through Sunday, Feb. 8 through 10; $5 admission, $6 to $18 for show tickets each day. Visit cowboypoets.com/mainpage.html for tickets and more information.

POLISH NIGHT St. Cyril of Alexandria Catholic Parish and School. 4725 E. Pima St. 795-1633. Entertainment is provided by Lajkonik Polish Folk Ensemble at a dinner featuring Polish food at 6 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 9; $20, $15 in advance. Call 495-8959, or visit polishdanceaz.com for more information. SALPOINTE CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION GALA Salpointe High School. 1545 E. Copper St. 327-6581. The foundation’s Carnivale Gala features tapas-style food, a hosted bar, silent and live auctions, a raffle and music by Sticks and Fingers from 5:30 to 11:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 9; $125. RSVP by Friday, Feb. 1, via salpointe.maestroweb.com, or call 547-9365 YEAR OF THE SNAKE CELEBRATION Chinese Cultural Center. 1288 W. River Road. 2926900. A Taste of China Festival features Chinese Arts and Crafts, kids’ games, live performances and food for sale, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 9; $2, free for children younger than 12; free parking. The Year of the Snake Dinner, featuring hors d’oeuvres, cocktails, entertainment, a silent auction and dinner by Harvest Moon restaurant of Oro Valley, takes place at 5 p.m., Friday and Saturday, Feb. 15 and 16; $150. Proceeds benefit the center. Call for reservations.

BULLETIN BOARD EVENTS THIS WEEK ARMCHAIR ADVENTURES Murphy-Wilmot Branch Library. 530 N. Wilmot Road. 594-5420. World travelers show and discuss slides, DVDs and videos of their travels, at 2 p.m., every Tuesday, through Feb. 19; free. Feb. 5: Switzerland. Feb. 12: Rwanda and a Serengeti safari. Feb. 19: England, Edinburgh, France, Belgium and Amsterdam. CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS The Downtown Tucson Partnership seeks volunteers to engage with the public during the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show, from Saturday, Feb. 2, through Sunday, Feb. 17. Volunteers welcome visitors and provide information about attractions, hotels, parking and more. Volunteers should be somewhat familiar with downtown and the website downtowntucson.org. Email brandi@ downtowntucson.org for more information. DANISH SMÖRGÅSBORD Hitchcock Pavilion. 3705 Old Sabino Canyon Road. The Danish Club of Tucson and Danes in the Desert host an event featuring singing and a traditional smörgåsbord meal with beverages, from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2; $30. Visit danesinthedesert.com or email danishcluboftucson@gmail.com for reservations and more information. DIVORCE RECOVERY 1 Streams in the Desert Lutheran Church. 5360 E. Pima St. 325-1114. Trained facilitators lead nonsectarian support groups from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Tuesday or Thursday; $60 requested donation, but no one is turned away. Each course is eight weeks and closes after the second week. A new course starts Tuesday, Feb. 5. Call 495-0704, or visit divorcerecovery.net for more info. LUMIES NOMINATIONS Nominations for the 2013 Lumies Arts and Business Awards are being accepted from Friday, Feb. 1 through Friday, March 22. Visit tucsonpimaartscouncil.org for more information. MARKET ON THE MOVE Market on the Move sells USDA-inspected surplus fresh produce from 8 to 11 a.m., the first Saturday of every month; free admission. Call 749-9429, or visit the3000club.org for locations and more information. OPEN HOUSE MEETINGS TO DISCUSS A DRAFT OF THE PROPOSED GENERAL PLAN FOR TUCSON Ward 2 Council Office. 7575 E. Speedway Blvd. 7914687. Proposed priorities for future economic development, parks and recreation, arts and culture, public infrastructure and facilities, the natural environment, revitalization and development, land use and transportation are reviewed in a public meeting about Plan Tucson, a new general plan required by state law. The meeting takes place from 7 to 8:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 31. Comments are also taken online at tucsonaz. gov/plantucson. PFLAG COUPLES CELEBRATION Ward 6 City Council Office. 3202 E. First St. 7914601. LGBT couples are invited to share their stories and enjoy refreshments at an event affirming LGBT couples from 7 to 9 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 6; free. Reservations are requested but drop-ins are welcome. Call 207-9120, or email karenj7@cox.net.

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PFLAG TUCSON SCHOLARSHIPS PFLAG Tucson, an organization of parents and families, seeks applicants for several $1,000 scholarships in 2013 in memory of Gene Moore. Scholarships are open to graduating high school seniors, undergraduate students and graduate students. Visit pflagtucson. org for application materials and more information. The deadline is Friday, March 29. Call 360-3795, or e-mail pflagtuc@pflagtucson.org for more information. RUMMAGE SALE FOR SYRIAN REFUGEES UN Center/UNICEF Store. 6242 E. Speedway Blvd. 881-7060. A rummage sale to benefit refugees from the civil war in Syria takes place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2. Donations of ethnic items, jewelry, books, CDs, small furniture, decor and shoes are sought for the sale, and are collected at the store from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Call 615-7644 for more information. SAFE ZONE TRAINING El Portal. 501 N. Highland Ave. 621-6501. The UA Office of LGBTQA Affairs hosts a two-part training for people who want to provide support and a safe environment for members of the LGBTQA community, on Sunday, Feb. 3, in the Saguaro Room; free. A general education workshop takes place from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Anyone who has had a general education workshop may take the Ally Development Workshop from 1 to 3 p.m. the same day. Registration is requested by Saturday, Feb. 2. Call 626-1996, or email ehkelley@ email.arizona.edu to register and for more information. WORLD HARMONY: CAN IT HAPPEN Access Tucson. 124 E. Broadway Blvd. 624-9833. Join the audience in Studio A for a live taping of the TV program World Harmony: Can It Happen? at 5:45 p.m., Friday, Feb. 1; free. Tom Mendola, Mary DeCamp and Robert Reus of the Tucson Peace Center discuss plans for the upcoming Peace Fair. View the program rebroadcast from noon to 1 p.m., Saturday, through July 7 on Cox Channel 99 and Comcast Channel 74, and streaming at accesstucson.org Call 722-2837 for more information.

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UPCOMING BEST OF ZUNI SILVER AND STONE Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 7426455. Zuni silver and stone crafts are displayed for sale, and carvers demonstrate the creation of Zuni fetishes, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Friday through Sunday, Feb. 8 through 10; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark.org for more information. CAR SHOW Famous Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s E. Golf Links. 7129 E. Golf Links Road. 296-1245. Hot Rods in the Desert hosts a car show including trophies, a raffle, food and a DJ, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 9; $20 per car, free for spec-

COLD WET NOSES ADOPTION EVENT Ventana Animal Hospital. 6866 E. Sunrise Drive. 2991146. Pets adopted from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 9, receive a free examination, and heartworm testing at a reduced rate; free, visitors are asked to bring a bag of dog or cat food for animals sheltered by Cold Wet Noses. FOURTH AVENUE HISTORY STORY SHARING Historic YWCA. 738 N. Fifth Ave. 622-4700. Anyone who grew up, worked, lived around or just loves Fourth Avenue is encouraged to join an evening of storytelling, food and art-making, from 6 to 8 p.m., the second Tuesday of every month, through May 14; $5 suggested donation. The information will be used in the design of a mural in Michael Haggerty Plaza, 316 N. Fourth Ave. Bring food and drink to share. FRONTIER PRINTING PRESS DEMONSTRATIONS Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Professional printer and teacher James Pagels demonstrates the 1858 Washington press used to print Arizonaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first newspaper, and answers questions about early printing methods, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 12 and Thursday, Feb. 14; from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 17; and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 26, and Thursday, Feb. 28; $5; $2 ages 7 through 13; free younger than 7, includes admission to tour the park. Visit tubacpresidiopark.com for more information.

BUSINESS & FINANCE EVENTS THIS WEEK AIGA MIXER: UNLUCKY IS THE NEW LUCKY Sky Bar. 536 N. Fourth Ave. 622-4300. Graphic designers, photographers, writers, marketers, architects and others meet at an AIGA mixer from 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 31; $5, free for members. Call 8918098 for more information about the event. Visit aiga. org for more information about the organization. PROPERTY TAX EXEMPTION FOR WIDOWS AND WIDOWERS Martha Cooper Branch Library. 1377 N. Catalina Ave. 594-5315. A representative of the Pima County Assessors office offers information about a property-tax exemption available to qualifying widows and widowers, from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., Monday, Feb. 4; free. REAL ESTATE INFORMATION NETWORK Village Inn. 6251 N. Oracle Road. 297-2180. Discussions about wealth formation take place over breakfast, from 7 to 8 a.m., the first Friday of every month; free program, no-host breakfast. Call 909-9375 for more information. SURVIVAL SKILLS TRANSITION WORKSHOP SERIES St. Philipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Linda Dewey leads a career transitions group for job-seekers, from 5:30 to 7 p.m., selected Mondays, From Feb. 4 through March 4, in the La Paz room; free. Call 225-0432 for more information.

UPCOMING NAWBO LUNCHEON AND PROGRAM Doubletree by Hilton Hotel. 445 S. Alvernon Way. 8814200. National Association of Women Business Ownersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; host a luncheon and program from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., the second Tuesday of every month; $40, $45 for members; $15 less for registration by the previous Friday. Feb. 12: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Public Policy: Has the Future Been Written Yet?â&#x20AC;? Visit nawbotucson.org, or call 326-2926 for reservations and more information. WEALTH PRESERVATION WORKSHOP Raskob/Kambourian Financial Advisors. 4100 N. First Ave. 690-1999. Individuals and business owners learn how to accumulate and preserve personal or business wealth from 1 to 2 p.m., Friday, Feb. 8. Reservations are requested.

FILM EVENTS THIS WEEK FILM SERIES: LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY Integrated Learning Center, Room 120. 1500 E University Blvd. 621-7788. Movies that illustrate the linguistic, psychological and social aspects of meaning are shown from 3:30 to 6 p.m., every Thursday, through

March 28, except March 14; free. Jan. 31: The Color of Paradise. Feb. 7: Do the Right Thing. Feb. 14: Snatch. Feb. 21: L’Auberge Español. Feb. 28: La Grande Illusion. March 7: Chinese Take-Away. March 21: Star Trek: Undiscovered Country. March 28: A Serious Man. Visit web.sbs.arizona.edu for more information. FIRST FRIDAY SHORTS Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. Max Cannon hosts a contest among filmmakers to win prizes or be gonged at the discretion of the audience, starting at 9 p.m., the first Friday of every month; $6, $5 Loft member. The maximum film length is 15 minutes; aspiring auteurs sign in with a DVD or Blu-ray that can be played on a regular player. GUN HILL ROAD Gallagher Theater. UA Student Union, 1303 E. University Blvd. 626-0370. Director Rashaad Ernesto Green participates in a Q&A about his film, Gun Hill Road, which screens at 7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 1; free. The film portrays the struggle of an ex-convict to come to terms with his relationships and his son’s sexual transformation. LOFT CINEMA SPECIAL EVENTS Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. A Sundance Film Festival USA screening of The Spectacular Now, and a meet-and-greet with director James Ponsoldt, take place at 7 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 31; $15. A Fistful of Spaghetti features three classic spaghetti westerns starring Clint Eastwood on Saturday, Feb. 2; $20, $15 for Loft Members, $8 for individual movies. Showtimes are A Fistful of Dollars at noon; For a Few Dollars More at 2:10; and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly at 4:50. Visit loftcinema.com for tickets and more information. OCCUPY TUCSON TEACH-IN Historic YWCA. 738 N. Fifth Ave. 622-4700. Occupy Tucson hosts a screening and discussion of The Precariat, a film about the growing number of people in the world who are living and working precariously, from 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 6; free. Call 399-6324 for more information. TV DISCUSSION GROUP Woods Memorial Branch Library. 3455 N. First Ave. 594-5445. Anyone is invited to share their thoughts about television programming from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday, through Sunday, Feb. 10; free. Clips of the television show The Closer are shown to spark discussion. Call 406-3385 for a reservation.

UPCOMING LOFT CINEMA SPECIAL EVENTS Loft Cinema. 3233 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-7777. The Wrecking Crew, a documentary about the Hollywood studio musicians who performed on many musical hits of the 1960s, screens at 3 and 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 7; $12, $10 members, students and seniors. After each screening, director Denny Tedesco and producer Snuff Garrett answer questions. Visit loftcinema.com for more information. NOW SHOWING AT YOUR LIBRARY Himmel Branch Library. 1035 N. Treat Ave. 594-5305. The Powerbroker, a documentary about Whitney Young, Jr. and the Urban League, is screened from 6 to 8 p.m., Monday, Feb. 11; free.

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Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m. , Sunday; free. Call 791-4010, or email askalibrarian@pima.gov for more information. SEED LIBRARY GRAND OPENING Dusenberry River Branch Library. 5605 E. River Road. 594-5345. A new seed library opens with family story time at 11 a.m., and family activities until 1 p.m., including hands-on crafts and seed planting, on Saturday, Feb. 2; free. TUCSON AFRICAN VIOLET SOCIETY The East Side Night Meeting of the Tucson African Violet Society gathers from 7 to 9 p.m., the first Wednesday of every month, at The Cascades, 201 N. Jessica Ave. The East Side Day Meeting takes place from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., the second Wednesday of every month, at The Cascades. The Northwest Day Meeting takes place from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m., the second Thursday of every month, at The Inn at the Fountains at La Cholla, 2001 W. Rudasill Road. WATER HARVESTING Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 7426455. A presentation about active and passive water harvesting takes place at 10 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 2, in the education center; $8, $4 for members, includes admission to the park.

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TMC SENIOR SERVICES TALKS TMC Senior Services. 1400 N. Wilmot Road. 3241960. Classes and events are free, but advance registration is required; call 324-4345 to register. Thursday, Jan. 31, from 1 to 2:30 p.m.: “Home Safety and Fall Prevention,” discussion. Tuesday, Feb. 5, from 2 to 3:30 p.m.: APDA education and support for people with Parkinson’s disease and their families. Wednesday, Feb. 6, from 1 to 3 p.m.: “Journey for Control: Diabetes”; and from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.: Alzheimer’s film:Tracy and Jess: Living With Early Onset Alzheimer’s.

UPCOMING TMC SENIOR SERVICES TMC Senior Services. 1400 N. Wilmot Road. 3241960. Classes and events are free, but advance registration is required; call 324-4345 to register. Unless otherwise noted, events take place at TMC Senior Services, El Dorado Health Campus, 1400 N. Wilmot Road. Thursday, Feb. 7, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.: Alzheimer’s Education, “Difficult Transitions,” Norma Patrick. Saturday, Feb. 9, from 8:30 a.m. to noon: “Love Your Bones,” orthopedic experts talk about bone and joint health in the Marshall Conference Center, 5301 E. Grant Road. Monday, Feb. 11, from 2 to 3:30 p.m.: Brain fitness discussion and exercises. Wednesday, Feb. 13, from 2 to 3:30 p.m.: Neurological Lecture, “Traumatic Brain Injury,” Stephen Gillespie.

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EVENTS THIS WEEK BUTTERFLY MAGIC Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Walk through a greenhouse full of beautiful and rare butterflies from 11 countries, through Tuesday, April 30. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., daily; $13, $7.50 ages 4 through 12, $12 students, seniors or military, includes admission to the gardens. ORGANIC GARDENERS COMPOSTING EXHIBIT Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. Tucson Organic Gardeners members answer questions in the composting-demonstration area from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the first and third Saturday of every month, through May 18; $13, $7.50 ages 4 through 12, free for younger children, $12 students, seniors and military personnel. Call or visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information. SEED LIBRARY Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 594-5500. Check seeds out from the library, and return seeds from your crop. Hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.,

KIDS & FAMILIES EVENTS THIS WEEK ART BY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF TUCSON Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. An exhibit of art works created by children in six Boys and Girls Clubs of Tucson, with help from faculty of The Drawing Studio, closes Thursday, Jan. 31. Library hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. Call 791-4010, or email askalibrarian@pima.gov for more information. BACKYARD BUGS Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. David Jester answers questions about bugs, and discusses the important roles they play in the garden and in the larger ecosystem, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., the first Sunday of every month; $13, $7.50 ages

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4 through 12, $12 students, seniors or military personnel, free for younger children, includes admission to the gardens. BOOKWORM CLUB Tucson Botanical Gardens. 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 3269686, ext. 10. Families enjoy storytime and a related hands-on activity in the Children’s Discovery Garden, from 10 to 11 a.m., the first Saturday of every month; $13, $7.50 ages 4 through 12, $12 students, seniors or military personnel, free for younger children, includes admission to the gardens. Visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information. CAMPFIRE SING-ALONG Valley of the Moon. 2544 E. Allen Road. 323-1331. Families join the magical creatures of the valley around a campfire to sing songs by The Beatles; Peter, Paul and Mary; Paul Simon, Raffi, Pete Seeger and others, from 4 to 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2; freewill donation. FAMILY FUN ASTRONOMY NIGHT Flowing Wells Branch Library. 1730 W. Wetmore Road. 594-5225. The UA Astronomy Club and graduate students give a presentation about the Solar System, star classification, the moon, Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic fields, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 6; free. FIRST SATURDAY ART WORKSHOPS BICAS. 44 W. Sixth St. 628-7950. Kids and families create a different project each month in recycled-art workshops, from noon to 3 p.m., the first Saturday of every month; $10, $8 students, $5 for ages 4 through 17, free for younger children. Kids must be accompanied by an adult. Advance registration is recommended but drop-ins are welcome. GET OUTSIDE CLUB Staff and volunteers from Ironwood Tree Experience lead an urban nature walk along the Rillito River, from 4 to 5 p.m. every Thursday; free. Collecting-jars, binoculars, lizard-catching rods, plant presses, field guides and other equipment are available to participants throughout the walk. Call 319-9868, ext. 7, for more information, including the meeting place. For more information, visit ironwoodtreeexperience.org.

HISTORICAL TOUR OF AGUA CALIENTE PARK Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 877-6000. All ages enjoy a guided tour of the park’s historic structures, and learn about its farming and ranching history, from 11 a.m. to noon, Sunday, Feb. 3; free. Reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for reservations or more information. MULTI-GENERATIONAL INTRODUCTION TO KINGIAN NONVIOLENCE Western Institute for Leadership Development. 1300 S. Belvedere Ave. 615-2200. A two-day participatory workshop about how to apply Martin Luther King’s six principles and steps of nonviolence as a way of life and a powerful strategy for social change takes place from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 2 and 3; $20, $10 college student, $5 high school student. Snacks and drinks are provided; participants bring their own lunches. Reservations are requested. Call 9916781, or email nvlp@cultureofpeacealliance.org. NATURE STORIES Agua Caliente Regional Park. 12325 E. Roger Road. 877-6000. An art activity follows a story-reading from 11 a.m. to noon, Friday, Feb. 1; free. Call 615-7855, or email eeducation@pima.gov for more information.

TSO JUST FOR KIDS The Flute Viola Harp Trio presents Pip and the Pirate, the story of graduation day at the pirate academy, at 10 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Oro Valley Town Council Chambers, 11000 N. La Cañada Drive; free. The TSO Brass Quintet presents two performances of Musical World Tour!, at 10 a.m. and 11:15 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 2, at the Tucson Symphony Center, 2175 N. Sixth Ave.; $3. Children are encouraged to dress as a favorite animal or to bring a stuffed-animal toy. Visit tucsonsymphony.org for more information. TUCSON RIVER OF WORDS YOUTH POETRY AND ART TRAVELING EXHIBIT Valencia Branch Library. 202 W. Valencia Road. 5945390. An exhibit of children’s poetry and art expressing their understanding of watersheds opens Tuesday, Feb. 5, and continues through Sunday, March 17; free. Hours are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday. Call 615-7855, or e-mail eeducation@pima.gov for more information. VOLUNTEER READERS SOUGHT Volunteers are sought to read to children at La Paloma Academy sites from 9 a.m. to 2:45 p.m., during Love of Reading Week, Monday through Friday, Feb. 4 through 8; and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday through Thursday, Feb. 11 through 14. Volunteers are also needed from 9 to 11 a.m., Wednesdays throughout the school year. Call 882-6262 or email alejandra@mcfaddengavender.com to volunteer and for more information.

PUPPETS AMONGUS Puppets Amongus Playhouse. 657 W. St. Mary’s Road. 444-5538. The Silken Thread, in which dragons and mystics relate Chinese legends to celebrate The Year of the Water Snake, is staged at 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 2 and 3. Tickets are $8, $6 for children older than 2, and free for younger children. Doors open at 3:30 p.m. Visit puppetsamongus.com for more info.

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SONGS AND STORIES Tucson Community School. 2109 E. Hendrick Drive. 326-9212. Families with young children enjoy singing, drama, storytelling by Jordan Hill, Puppets Amongus, children’s folk music by Dennis Pepe and Banjo Paul, a book booth, and UA planetary scientist Shane Byrne, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2; $10, $5 for children, $20 for a family of four. Food and drinks are available.

REACHOUT TUCSON WALK Brandi Fenton Memorial Park. 3482 E. River Road. 877-6154. Reachout Pregnancy Center Tucson celebrates its 40th anniversary with a walk at 10 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 9; $25, $15 for students and family members. Anyone may walk, and walkers are encouraged to organize teams. Visit reachout.dojiggy.com to register. Visit reachoutpregnancy.org for information about the organization.

STORIES THAT SOAR Students’ original stories come to life in a theatrical production by the Stories That Soar ensemble, at 9 a.m., Friday, Feb. 1, at Lineweaver Elementary, 461 S. Bryant Ave.; free. Guests must sign in at the main office.

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OUT OF TOWN CIENEGA CREEK BIRDING Gabe Zimmerman Davidson Canyon Trailhead. 16000 E. Marsh Station Road. Vail. 615-7855. Birder Jeff Babson leads an all-ages walk through cottonwoods and willows to spot songbirds, raptors and other species from 8 to 11 a.m., Monday, Feb. 4; free. Reservations are required. Call 615-7855, or e-mail eeducation@pima. gov for more information. ORACLE STATE PARK Oracle State Park. 3820 Wildlife Drive. Oracle. 8962425. The park is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, through Sunday, April 28. Spring activities include guided bird walks and hikes, and tours of the historic Kannally ranch house. Visit azstateparks.com for more information. PATAGONIA LAKE STATE PARK Patagonia Lake State Park. 400 Patagonia Lake Road. Patagonia. (520) 287-6965. Visitor center hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. Avian tours take place on the pontoon boats at 9 a.m. and 10:15 a.m., Saturdays and Sundays. Pontoon boats depart for the Lake Discovery Tour to the west end of the lake at 11:30 a.m., Saturdays and Sundays. A twilight pontoon tour takes place just before dark on Saturdays. Each boat trip is $5. Bird walks are held every Monday and Friday at 9 a.m.; walks are about three hours long; free. Park entrance fees are $10 to $15 for each vehicle, $17 for non-electric camping sites, $25 for electric sites. Visit azstateparks.com for more information. SANTA CRUZ RIVER WALKS Tumacácori National Historical Park. 1891 E. Frontage Road. Tumacácori. 398-2341. A guide leads half-mile walks along a level, unpaved trail through rare habitat for birds and wildlife, at 10:30 a.m., every Wednesday, through April 24; free. WALKING TOURS OF OLD TOWN TUBAC Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Alice Keene leads a tour of the original adobe buildings and discusses the history of Arizona’s first European settlement, from 10:30 a.m. to noon, Friday, Feb. 1, 15 and 22; $7.50 includes admission to the park. Call or visit TubacPresidioPark.com for more information.

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FIRST SATURDAY BIRD WALK Sabino Canyon. 5700 N. Sabino Canyon Road. 7498700. Sabino Canyon volunteer naturalists Mark and Jean Hengesbaugh lead adults on an easy bird walk co-sponsored by the Tucson Audubon Society, at 8 a.m., sharp, the first Saturday of every month; $5 parking or $20 annual pass. Wear good walking shoes and bring water.

WALK LIKE MADD Reid Park Zoo. 1030 S. Randolph Way. 881-4753. Supporters are invited to bring their dogs to a fundraising walk benefitting awareness programs sponsored by Mothers Against Drunk Driving from 7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 9; $20 adults and pets, $15 for walkers age 20 and younger. Call 322-5253, or visit walklikemadd.org/southernarizona to register and for more information.

TUCSON MOUNTAIN PARK BIRDING WALK Tucson Mountain Park Ironwood Picnic Area. 1548 S. Kinney Road. Join birding expert John Higgins for a guided bird walk for ages 12 and older, from 8 to 10 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 2; free. Meet at the picnic area. Call 615-7855 for more info.

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THE URBAN BIRDER: INDOOR BIRD-WATCHING Sabino Canyon Visitors’ Center. 5700 N. Sabino Canyon Road. 749-8700. Londoner David Lindo, known as the Urban Birder, presents a slide talk on birding in cities, at noon, Wednesday, Feb. 6, following the 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. nature walk; free. A parking pass is required; $5 or $20 for the year.

EVENTS THIS WEEK EIGHT STEPS TO HAPPINESS Barnes and Noble. 5130 E. Broadway Blvd. 5121166. A discussion of the Buddhist text Eight Steps to Happiness takes place at 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2; free.

QIGONG MEDITATION AND DISCUSSION Center for the Healing Arts. 2550 E. Fort Lowell Road. 829-6174. Zy Qigong leads a meditation and discussion about vibrational alignments that took place on the Dec. 21 solstice, from 12:30 to 2:15 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2; free. call 404-8745 for a reservation. TUSON DOWSERS CHAPTER FEBRUARY SPEAKER Water of Life MCC. 3269 N. Mountain Ave. 292-9151. Master Dowser Gary Plapp speaks about photon and other energies from 1 to 3 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2; $5 suggested donation.

OUT OF TOWN LEARNING TO MEDITATE Oro Valley Public Library. 1305 W. Naranja Drive. Oro Valley. 594-5580. Pat and Joe Ambrosic present the benefits of meditation and relaxation activities from 1 to 2:30 p.m., every Saturday, through Feb. 16; free. LOOKING UNTO JESUS Hilton El Conquistador Resort. 10000 N. Oracle Road. Oro Valley. 544-5000. A religious conference takes place from Monday through Saturday, Feb. 4 through 9; free. Call 544-1108 for more information.

SPORTS EVENTS THIS WEEK FC TUCSON Kino Veterans Memorial Stadium. 2500 E. Ajo Way. 434-1021. Visit fctucson.com for tickets and more information. Tickets are $10 to $75. Thursday, Jan. 31, 6 p.m.: Houston plays Colorado. Friday, Feb. 1, at 6 p.m.: Sporting KC plays Portland. Saturday, Feb. 2, at 11 a.m.: San Jose meets Colorado; and at 4 p.m.: Houston meets Vancouver. Tuesday, Feb. 5, at 11 a.m.: Seattle plays Portland. Friday, Feb. 8, at 11 a.m.: Tucson plays Portland. The Desert Diamond Cup is played on Wednesdays and Saturdays, Feb. 13 through 23. Wednesday, Feb. 13, at 5 p.m.: Revolution plays Sounders FC; and at 7 p.m.: Red Bulls play Real Salt Lake. Saturday, Feb. 16, at 4 p.m.: Sounders FC meets Real Salt Lake; and at 6 p.m.: Red Bulls plays Revolution. Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 5 p.m.: Real Salt Lake plays Revolution; and at 7 p.m.: Sounders FC meets Red Bulls. Saturday, Feb. 23, at 4 p.m.: The Major League Soccer third-place team plays the fourthplace team; and at 6 p.m.: the MLS first-place team plays the second-place team. PUBLIC COMMENT ON ADOT BICYCLE AND PEDESTRIAN PLAN Feb. 8 is the deadline for submitting comments on ADOTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s updated Bicycle and Pedestrian plan. Review the draft final report at azbikeped.org/studyupdate/ documents.asp. Complete the comment form at surveymonkey.com/s/adotbikepedplan. UA MENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S BASKETBALL UA McKale Memorial Center. 1721 E. Enke Drive. The UA meets Stanford at 7 or 9 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 6; and California at 5 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 10; $20 to $115. Visit arizonawildcats.com/sports for tickets and more information.

Washington State at 3 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 3; $3 to $8. Visit arizonawildcats.com for tickets and more info. WAKA KICKBALL Joaquin Murrieta Park. 1400 N. Silverbell Road. 7914752. Registration is open for the Arizona Blister kickball season, which starts with a rules clinic at 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 28, and continues every Thursday through May 2; $72. Registration deadlines are Monday, Feb. 4, for teams, and Thursday, March 14, for individuals. A team requires 18 players. A tournament and end-of-season party take place Saturday, May 11. Visit kickball.com/season/azblisterspring2013 to register and for more information.

UPCOMING FINE VALENTINE COUPLEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S RELAY Geronimo Plaza. 820 E. University Blvd. A celebration of Valentineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day starting at 8 a.m., Sunday, Feb. 10, at the UA Main Gate, includes a 4-mile relay race for couples, an individual 4-mile ramp run race and a 2-mile noncompetitive walk/jog; $12 to $20. Email raccetta2@cox.net, or visit azroadrunners.org for more information. Race-day registration and packet pick up are at Geronimo Square.

ANNOUNCEMENTS POOL TOURNAMENTS Pockets Pool and Pub. 1062 S. Wilmot Road. 5719421. Nine-ball tournaments take place according to handicap at 5 p.m., Sunday, and 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, for 9 and under; and at 7:30 p.m., Monday, for 8 and under. Tournaments for handicaps 9 and under take place at noon, every Saturday: 14.1 straight pool the first Saturday; nine-ball the second and fourth Saturday; 10-ball the third Saturday; and eight-ball the fifth Saturday; $10, optional $5 side pot. Unrated players arrive 30 minutes early to get a rating. Chess and backgammon also are available. Call for more info. RAINBOW RIDERS CYCLING GROUP A group of LGBTQA cyclists dedicated to the enjoyment of all types of bicycling meets every Sunday, and other occasions at the suggestion of members; free. Times vary. All levels of riders are welcome. E-mail nursewratchet@yahoo.com, or visit health.groups.yahoo. com/group/wingspan_fun2bhealthy/messages for more information. TUCSON FRONTRUNNERS LGBT people and family, friends and straight allies of all ability levels run or walk at their own pace. At 5:30 p.m., every Monday, they participate in Meet Me at Maynards, 311 E. Congress St. At 5:30 p.m., each Wednesday, they climb Tumamoc Hill, just west of the intersection of Silverbell Road and Anklam Road. At 7:30 a.m., every Saturday, their main walk takes place at Reid Park, beginning from the parking lot of Hi Corbett Field, 3400 E. Camino Campestre. An hour after the run, they meet for brunch. Visit tucsonfrontrunners.org for more information. TUCSON INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY Tucson International Raceway. 4300 E. Los Reales Road. 574-8515. Wing sprint, x-mod, super stock, factory stock, hornet and other class races start at 6:45 p.m., every Saturday; $12, free age 11 and younger, $10 military, senior and youth age 12 through 17, add $5 for the enclosed VIP tower. Kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; activities and fullservice concessions also are featured. Visit tucsoninternationalraceway.com for tickets and racing schedules.

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PERFORMING ARTS The idea behind ‘Freud’s Last Session’ is interesting, but the production lacks gravity

Christianity and Clinical Psychology BY SHERILYN FORRESTER, sforrester@tucsonweekly.com ost plays, of course, consist of dialogue—words spoken between characters, real or imagined. But a really good play is so much more than that: a captivating story, compelling characters, a conflict that drives the play and, if resolved, a strong and satisfying sense within the audience of having been moved or even changed. The truly great plays possess all, or at least a measure of all, these elements—or even embody a fierce antagonism toward them. There are, of course, some pretty good plays that skimp on some of these elements and still manage to provide an evening of thoughtful entertainment. Mark St. Germain’s Freud’s Last Session, currently on stage at the Arizona Theatre Company, is one of these. The play features a fictional meeting between Sigmund Freud (J. Michael Flynn) and C. S. Lewis (Benjamin Evett) on Sept. 3, 1939, as World War II is rattling Europe, England is being drawn into the war and Freud, 83, is sickened by oral cancer (in fact, he died 30 days later). Lewis had achieved fame as an elite Oxford intellect who, after a conversion—a “psychotic hallucination,” in Freud’s words—was now offering a rational context for Christian faith. Both intrigued and perplexed by Lewis’ behavior, atheist Freud wants to engage Lewis in a discussion about God and his faith, while Lewis good-naturedly points out that Freud’s desire to discuss God is an odd one if he doesn’t exist. Freud, of course, is the father of modern psychology. He was greatly influenced by Darwin and concluded that it was chiefly the sexual impulse of humans that was the driving force for development and survival. Hence, there was danger in attempting to look beyond the natural world, and especially dangerous were those

institutions that professed a path to salvation by demeaning humanity’s sexual nature. Lewis was half Freud’s age, a wounded veteran of World War I, and had renounced religion in his teenage years. He was a scholar, prolific writer (The Chronicles of Narnia, among others), and friend of J.R.R. Tolkien, with whom he and other Oxford writers had discussions that rekindled Lewis’ belief in God and his embrace of Christianity. His was an intelligent, reasoned response, and he was respected by folks like Freud, although they were skeptical and curious about his faith. So there you have it: a perfect setup for intellectual sparring between these two figures whose ideas about human beings and life were so different, offering opportunities for discussions about sex, myth, history, families, romance, pain, illness, war, death and suicide. And in the play, these two tackle them all, which unfortunately means that they address them rather superficially. The play was inspired by The Question of God, a book by Dr. Armand M. Nicholi Jr. that compares and contrasts the thinking of Freud and Lewis. The idea of creating a play where these two smart and accomplished men meet and converse, parrying and thrusting with their very different ideas about the nature of life and faith and God is not a bad one, even if might appeal only on an intellectual level. But ironically, the evening seems lightweight. There is some tension, but no real conflict. The two characters are interesting enough, and although there are small moments that reveal vulnerability and compassion, we really don’t invest in them emotionally. And although St. Germain’s dialogue is intriguing, his discussion of ideas is only mildly so. Overall, the theatrical effect is weak.

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St. Germain understands the dramatic necessity of conflict and sympathetic characters, but sometimes his efforts to build these into the script seem forced rather than organic. He sets the piece in Freud’s home in England, where he has had to flee from Austria, which is on the precipice of war. If ever there were a human event that challenges the very notion of God, war would certainly be a strong candidate. But the war provides a backdrop for the meeting; it is not a conflict rising from the meeting of the two. St. Germain makes Freud and Lewis articulate and passionate. And to humanize these men of great minds, he emphasizes their wit, so there is plenty of humor to lubricate their lofty discussions. There is an emotional center here, although it’s a subtle one. It lies with Freud, a great, accomplished man dealing with pain and illness and clearly facing his death. He has had 33 operations on his jaw, and since so much of it has been removed, he wears an ill-fitting prosthesis that is painfully irritating. Throughout the play he makes phone calls to his doctor and daughter, pleading with them to come and help provide relief. While these calls seem devised to offer a growing sense of momentum, they actually impede it. Flynn as Freud and Evett as Lewis offer skilled and credible characterizations, and it is their work that gives the play its appeal. Director Stephen Wrentmore draws together as best he can the often sparse elements of drama St. Germain provides, as we peer into Freud’s study. Kent Dorsey designed this impressively detailed and handsome set, although, quite frankly, it overwhelms the play itself. This is a joint production of ATC and the

Freud’s Last Session Presented by Arizona Theatre Company 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 31, and Friday, Feb. 1; 4 and 8 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2; 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 4; 2 and 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 6, and Thursday, Feb. 7; 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 8; 2 and 8 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 9 Temple of Music and Art 330 S. Scott Ave. $26.50-$65.50 Runs 90 minutes, with no intermission 622-2823; arizonatheatre.org

San Jose Repertory Theatre. These two organizations have worked together before with great success, particularly with The Kite Runner several seasons ago. Although ATC’s production is a solid one, Freud’s Last Session is not a great piece of theater, and it comes nowhere near offering convincing arguments from these two thinkers for or against the idea of a deity, which seems to be at the heart of St. Germain’s purpose. In its goal of representing these two men and the products of their great intellects, it disappoints.

DANCE UPCOMING UAPRESENTS Sunday, Feb. 10, at 7 p.m.: Alonzo King Lines Ballet, at Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd.; $15 to $45. Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 14 through 16, at 7:30 p.m.; and Sunday, Feb. 17 at 1:30 p.m.: UA Dance, Premium Blend, in the Stevie Eller Dance Theatre, 1737 E. University Blvd.; $15 to $29. Call 621-3341, or visit uapresents.org for tickets and more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS CONTRA DANCING First United Methodist Church. 915 E. Fourth St. 6226481. Live music, callers and an alcohol- and smokefree environment are provided for contra dancing at 7 p.m., the first, third and fourth Saturday each month; $8, $7 member of Tucson Friends of Traditional Music, $6 student. An introductory lesson takes place at 6:30 p.m.; dancing begins at 7 p.m. Call 325-1902, or visit tftm.org for more information. FREE TANGO LESSONS AND DANCE Casa Vicente Restaurante Español. 375 S. Stone Ave. 884-5253. A free class for beginners (no partner necessary) takes place from 7 to 8 p.m., each Wednesday; and tango dancing continues from 8 to 10 p.m.; free. Call 245-6158 for information. FREE ZUMBA CLASS Bookmans. 3733 W. Ina Road. 579-0303. Instructor Leslie Lundquist leads a workout for all skill levels, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., every Thursday; free.

MUSIC EVENTS THIS WEEK ARIZONA BALALAIKA ORCHESTRA PCC Center for the Arts. 2202 W. Anklam Road. 2066986. Moscow balalaika virtuoso Andrey Gorbachev headlines the Slavic Spectacular, a concert of Russian and Slavic music and dance, at 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2. Also featured are the Lajkonik Polish Dance Ensemble, the Rusyny Dancers, vocal soloists and colorful costumes: $16, $11 students. THE ARIZONA EARLY MUSIC SOCIETY St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. The Broken Consort, three voices with vielle, winds, lute and percussion, present The Musical Flavors of the Italian Trecento at 3 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 3; $25, $22 senior, $5 student. Call 6901361, or visit azearlymusic.org for more information. ARIZONA OPERA Tucson Music Hall. 210 S. Church Ave. 791-4101. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday. Feb. 2 and 3: Tosca. March 9 and 10: Il Trovatore. April 13 and 14: The Marriage of Figaro. Visit azopera.com for tickets or more information. FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Friday, Feb. 1, at 7:30 p.m.: A Salute to the Blues Brothers, with Mike Yarema, Charlie Hall and the Bad News Blues Band; $15 to $30. Call or visit foxtucsontheatre.org for more information. LEE COULTER Bookmans. 6230 E. Speedway Blvd. 748-9555. Lee Coulter performs at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 31; free. Visit leecoulter.com for more information. RHYTHM AND ROOTS CONCERTS Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. The Desert Rose Band plays country rock at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2; $23 to $34. Visit rhythmandroots.org for tickets. Call 440-4455 for more information. ST. PHILIP’S IN THE HILLS FRIENDS OF MUSIC CONCERT St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church. 4440 N. Campbell Ave. 299-6421. Guitarist Phil Hemmo and Friends perform a benefit concert in the Bloom Music Center, at 7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 1; freewill donation. Proceeds benefit St. Philip’s after-school music program. Visit stphilipstucson.org for more information. THE LOVE SHOW Westin La Paloma. 3800 E. Sunrise Drive. 742-6000. Elliot Glicksman and David Fitzsimmons co-host “The LOVE Show,” featuring Jeff Haskell and Moisés Paiewonsky producing an evening of love songs by

Tucson celebrities accompanied by the UA Studio Jazz Ensemble, at 6 p.m., Friday, Feb. 1; $75, $100 VIP. Visit saaca.org/LOVE_Show.html for tickets. TUCSON GUITAR SOCIETY UA Museum of Art. 1031 Olive Road. A guitar recital takes place at 11 a.m., every Friday while school is in session; free. Call 342-0022, or visit tucsonguitarsociety.org for reservations and more info. UA SCHOOL OF MUSIC UA School of Music. 1017 N. Olive Road. 621-1655. Concerts are $5 unless otherwise indicated. Saturday, Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m.: 40th Annual President’s Concert featuring the Arizona Symphony Orchestra and winners of a concerto competition; $5 to $9. Tuesday, Feb. 5, at 7 p.m.: faculty artists Hon-Mei Xiao, viola, and Tannis Gibson, piano, in Holsclaw Hall. UAPRESENTS UA Centennial Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 6213364. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra performs at 8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 1; $15 to $75. Call 621-3341, or visit uapresents.org for tickets and more information.

UPCOMING FOX TUCSON THEATRE Fox Tucson Theatre. 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. Thursday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m.: Dwight Yoakam; $47 to $130. Saturday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m.: 2nd Saturdays Downtown presents guitarist Pavlo; free. Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 8 p.m.: Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel; $31 to $41 advance, $2 more day-of-show. Call or visit foxtucsontheatre.org for more information. LAVA MUSIC Abounding Grace Church. 2450 S. Kolb Road. 7473745. Shows are from 7 to 9 p.m., Saturday; $15. Feb. 9: Sabra Faulk and the Angel Band, folk-rock and originals. Feb. 16: Dolan Ellis, Arizona’s official balladeer since 1966. Visit lavamusic.org for tickets. NEW ORLEANS MUSIC AND CULTURE: TREME AND BEYOND Himmel Branch Library. 1035 N. Treat Ave. 594-5305. Learn about the origins of jazz, the history of Congo Square, the notorious red-light district of Storyville, the pageantry of Mardi Gras Indians, jazz funerals, early rock ‘n roll, and more from 6 to 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 7; free. RHYTHM AND ROOTS CONCERTS Club Congress. 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848. The Paul Thorn Band plays Americana, at 6 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 10, in theater-style seating; $20, $18 advance. Visit rhythmandroots.org for tickets. Call 440-4455 for more information. TSO CLASSIC Beethoven and Wagner, featuring conductor Ulrich Windfuhr and soprano Amber Wagner, is performed at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Feb. 8, with a pre-concert chat at 6:30 p.m., at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, 7650 N. Paseo del Norte; $49. The event is part of the Tucson Desert Song Festival. For tickets call 797-3959 ext. 9, or send email to pat@saaca.org. Beethoven and Wagner is repeated at 8 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 9; and 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 10, at Catalina Foothills High School Auditorium, 4300 E. Sunrise Drive; $26 to $79. Call 882-8585, or visit tucsonsymphonyorchestra.org for tickets and more information. TUCSON CHAMBER ARTISTS Rossini and Brunelle, featuring the TCA chorus, guest conductor Philip Brunelle and guest soloists as part of the inaugural Tucson Desert Song Festival, is presented at 8 p.m., Friday, Feb. 8, at Catalina Foothills High School, 4300 E. Sunrise Drive; 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 9, at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church, 1200 N. Campbell Ave.; and 3 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 10, at Desert Hills Lutheran Church, 2150 South Camino Del Sol, Green Valley; $20 to $30. For more information, visit tucsondesertsongfestival.org. TUCSON DESERT SONG FESTIVAL Internationally known soloists and conductors collaborate with Tucson orchestral, chamber and choral groups in a ten-day festival of recitals, seminars and master classes from Friday, Feb. 8, through Sunday, Feb. 17. See entries for the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, Passionately Piazzolla!, and Tucson Chamber Artists, as well as websites for UApresents, specifically the Nathan Gunn concert, Thursday, Feb. 14, uapresents.org; and the website for the UA School of Music, music.arizona.edu. UA SCHOOL OF MUSIC UA School of Music. 1017 N. Olive Road. 621-1655. Concerts are $5 unless otherwise indicated. Tuesday, Feb. 12, at 7:30 p.m.: Wind Ensemble and Wind Symphony, Crowder Hall. Friday, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p.m.: A collaboration between the School of Music and the School of Film and Television presents an integration of live song with video media, Crowder Hall; free.

UAPRESENTS Unless otherwise indicated, performances are in Centennial Hall, 1020 E. University Blvd. Call 6213341, or visit uapresents.org for tickets and more information. Monday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m.: St. Olaf Choir; $26 to $38. Thursday, Feb. 14, at 7:30 p.m.: baritone Nathan Gunn, in Crowder Hall, 1017 N. Olive Road; $15, $40 and $50. Saturday, Feb. 16, at 8 p.m.: John Pizzarelli Quartet, at the Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress St.; $15, $30, $40. Sunday, Feb. 17, at 7 p.m.: From the Top Live with Christopher O’Riley, on the Centennial Hall patio; $15 to $35.

ANNOUNCEMENTS BLUEGRASS MUSIC JAM SESSIONS The Desert Bluegrass Association hosts free public jam sessions monthly. The first Sunday, 3 to 5 p.m.: Udall Recreation Center, 7200 E. Tanque Verde Road, 2961231. The first Thursday, 7 to 9 p.m.: Rincon Market, 2315 E. Sixth St., 296-1231. The third Sunday, 3 to 5 p.m.: Music and Arts Center, 8320 N. Thornydale Road, No. 150-170, 579-2299. The third Thursday, 7 to 9 p.m.: Pinnacle Peak Restaurant, 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road, 296-0911. The fourth Sunday, from 4 to 6 p.m.: Thirsty’s Neighborhood Grill, 2422 N. Pantano Road, 885-6585. Call the phone number provided for each venue for more information. CALL FOR MALE SINGERS Tucson Boys Chorus Center. 5770 E. Pima St. The Sons of Orpheus men’s choir welcomes prospective members to rehearsals from 7 to 9 p.m., every Wednesday; free. The choir sings a broad range of classical and popular works for men’s voices. Call 621-1649, or email contact1@sonsoforpheus.org for more information. SHAPE-NOTE SINGING Sonora Cohousing Common House. 501 E. Roger Road. 404-1988. Shape-note singing from The Sacred Harp takes place from 2 to 5 p.m., the first and third Saturday of every month; free. Copies of The Sacred Harp are available for loan or purchase. Call 743-1268, or visit tucsonfasola.org for more information.

THEATER OPENING THIS WEEK ARIZONA REPERTORY THEATRE UA Marroney Theatre. 1025 N. Olive Road. 621-1162. Love Song, which features adult themes and language unsuitable for children, opens Sunday, Feb. 3, and continues through Sunday, Feb. 24; $17 to $28. Dates and times vary. Visit tftv.arizona.edu for more information. ARIZONA ROSE THEATRE COMPANY Temple of Music and Art Cabaret Theater. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. The Rainmaker, a love story about a huckster and the farmer’s daughter, opens Saturday, Feb. 2, and continues through Sunday, Feb. 10. Showtimes are 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2; 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 3 and 10; 7 p.m., Friday, Feb. 8; and 5 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 9; $15, $13 senior and military, $8 child younger than 12. Visit arizonarose.cc for tickets and more information. ETCETERA Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. The series Theatrum Orbis Terrarum consists of four original plays by Tucson collaborative Theatre 3. Each play revolves around a traveling family troupe that uses music, storytelling, puppets, masks and beer to engage the audience in the culture of a different geographic region. Audience members share their own stories in the final episode. Performances are at 10:30 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays. Feb. 1 and 2: Turkey. March 8 and 9: Ireland. April 5 and 6: Japan. April 26 and 27: Tucson. Visit livetheatreworkshop.org for more information.

CONTINUING ARIZONA THEATRE COMPANY Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 884-4875. Freud’s Last Session, an imaginary conversation between Freud and C.S. Lewis, continues through Saturday, Feb. 9; $35 to $80. Showtimes vary. Call or visit arizonatheatre.org for tickets or more information. THE GASLIGHT THEATRE The Gaslight Theatre. 7010 E. Broadway Blvd. 8869428. The Lone Stranger, or “Hilarity Rides Again” continues through Sunday, March 31. Showtimes are 7 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday; 3 and 7 p.m., Wednesday; 6 and 8:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 and 6 p.m., Sunday; $17.95, $7.95 child age 12 and younger, $15.95 student, military and senior. Dates and times vary; additional matinees are available. Visit

thegaslighttheatre.com for showtimes, reservations or more information. LIVE THEATRE WORKSHOP Live Theatre Workshop. 5317 E. Speedway Blvd. 3274242. The Chosen continues through Saturday, Feb. 9. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 3 p.m., Sunday; $18, $16 senior, military or student. Call or visit livetheatreworkshop.org for tickets. WINDING ROAD THEATER ENSEMBLE Beowulf Alley Theatre Company. 11 S. Sixth Ave. 882-0555. August: Osage County continues through Sunday, Feb. 10. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and 2 p.m., Sunday; $20, $17 student, military, senior or theater artist. Call 401-3626, or visit windingroadtheater.org for more information.

OUT OF TOWN CALL FOR ACTORS Murr Community Center. 51301 Cushing St. Fort Huachuca. (520) 533-2404. The Illegitimate Theater Company holds auditions for Arsenic and Old Lace at 6 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday, Feb. 6 and 7, and Monday, Feb. 11; free. Parts are for men and women ages 20 to 65. Show dates are Friday through Sunday, April 19 through 21, and 26 through 28. Call 3787037 or 459-0246 for more information.

UPCOMING INVISIBLE THEATRE Invisible Theatre. 1400 N. First Ave. 882-9721. First Kisses opens with a preview on Tuesday, Feb. 12, and continues through Sunday, March 3; $28. Call or visit invisibletheatre.com for tickets and more information. Rush tickets are available at half-price, one half-hour before each performance. ODYSSEY STORYTELLING Fluxx Studio and Gallery. 414 E. Ninth St. 882-0242. Six storytellers share tales from their lives based on a monthly theme, at 7 p.m., the first Thursday of every month; $7. Feb. 7: When in Rome. March 7: Not As Advertised. April 4: Oh Gross! The Juvenile Humor Show. May 2: Mommie Dearest: The Love of Family. ASL interpretation is provided. Beverages are available for sale. To tell a story on a future topic, send a synopsis and a brief bio a month in advance. Call 730-4112, or visit storyartsgroup.org for more information

ANNOUNCEMENTS CALL FOR ACTORS Friends Meeting House. 931 N. Fifth Ave. 884-1776. Auditions are held from 1 to 5 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2, for parts in five plays scheduled through June, 2014. Auditioning actors take direction, work with audition pieces and be prepared to perform two contrasting monologues of their choice; it’s recommended that one be classical. Plays include Pirates of Penzance, Dracula, A Christmas Carol, Under Milk Wood and Hamlet. Email universalaccessproductions@gmail.com. CALL FOR ACTORS El Parador. 2744 E. Broadway Blvd. 881-2744. Male and female adults are sought for paid roles with an established dinner theater. Bring a head shot and resume, and cold-read at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 5. Call 624-0172, or email mysterytheater@aol.com. MAGICAL MYSTERY DINNER THEATER Magical Mystery Dinner Theater. 2744 E. Broadway Blvd 624-0172. Murder at the Vampire’s Wedding, a 2 1/2hour, interactive comedy whodunit that includes a threecourse dinner, takes place most Fridays and Saturdays; $29 to $42, includes dinner. Doors open at 7 p.m. Call for reservations or more information. NOT BURNT OUT JUST UNSCREWED A comedy troupe performs family-friendly improv for freewill donations at 7:30 p.m., the first Friday of every month, at Revolutionary Grounds Coffee House, 616 N. Fourth Ave.; and the third Friday of every month, at Rock N Java, 7555 W. Twin Peaks Road, Marana. Call 861-2986, or visit unscrewedcomedy.com.

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An American Tragedy BY LAURA C.J. OWEN, lowen@tucsonweekly.com all it a slow burn. Tracy Letts’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County takes some time to get going. The first act drags a little as the large cast of 13 characters is introduced. Once we’ve gotten to know the dysfunctional Weston family, however, the drama starts to pop. The clan’s secrets and lies emerge over the course of the second two acts, in a mixture of a dark humor and anguish. By the end, the Winding Road Theater Ensemble production has gone from sleepy to scorching. The dark comedy takes place during a sweltering Oklahoma summer. It opens as the family’s aging, alcoholic father, Beverly (Roger Owen), is forced to hire a young woman, Johnna (China Young), to help care for his wife, Violet (Toni Press-Coffman). Not only is Violet suffering from cancer, she’s also a longtime prescription pill addict. When Beverly suddenly goes missing, the family’s three grown daughters— quiet Ivy (Alida Holguin Gunn), bossy Barbara (Maria Caprile) and naïve Karen (Avis Judd)—turn up. The daughters try to get things under some kind of control, but Beverly’s disappearance has created a power void. Violet’s vicious temper makes itself keenly felt, and Barbara is goaded by her mother’s toxic behavior. To this already intricate drama, Letts has added subplots about Karen’s sleazy fiancé, Barbara’s own crumbling marriage and an aunt and uncle with an underachieving son. At first these additional relatives seem like so much white noise—extra eccentric characters to add more grim humor. But toward the end of the play, secrets revealed by this branch of the family have a devastating effect. In the tradition of dysfunctional American family dramas like Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, the more time the family spends together, the more the situation deteriorates. And the play has a certain Southern gothic quality reminiscent of Tennessee Williams, that other master of American tragedy. The August heat of Oklahoma is stifling, everyone drinks heavily and the mostly naturalistic drama veers in places toward a more poetic, lyrical style. Press-Coffman is darkly delightful as the addicted matriarch Violet. She realistically plays someone under the influence—a more difficult task than it may seem. It’s easy for an actor to simply “play the drugs,” distracting from the character with over-the-top antics. Press-Coffman’s behavior is instead uneasy and surreal, evoking the disturbingly off feeling of someone whose worldview is mediated by pharmaceuticals.

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Avis Judd, Maria Caprile and Alida Gunn in Winding Road Theater Ensemble’s August: Osage County. Yet despite the mist of drugs, Violet is capaAugust: Osage County ble of shrewd observation and devastating Presented by Winding Road Theater Ensemble attacks. In a long dinner scene that plays like a symphony of dysfunction, Violet launches ver7:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday; 2 p.m., bal sally after sally at her family members. Sunday, through Sunday, Feb. 10 Finally, her nastiness reaches such a pitch that Beowulf Alley Theatre, Barbara physically attacks her mother. 11 S. Sixth Ave. Caprile digs her teeth into the meaty role of $20 general; $17 students, seniors, military and theater artists Barbara. Despite all the doom and gloom, the play is often very funny—admittedly, it’s Runs about three hours, with two intermissions humor of the “laughter in the dark” variety. 401-3626; The situations are often so wretched that the www.windingroadtheater.org only thing to do is laugh. Barbara has the wittiest lines, and Caprile has a delicious deadpan. Oklahoma house—study, living room, dining August: Osage County was acclaimed on room and bedroom—while giving the large Broadway, winning the Pulitzer for drama in cast room to move. 2008. But it debuted in Chicago, in a 2007 proThere’s a fine scene in Act 2 where all 13 duction by the famous ensemble theater group actors are onstage, spread throughout the Steppenwolf, to which Letts belongs. In rooms, talking at the same time. The ensemble Backstage magazine, Letts wrote that he created handles the overlapping conversations with the multicharacter play because of his “deliberease; it’s like watching a live-action version of ate desire” to write for an acting ensemble. a Robert Altman film. Winding Road’s production marks the first There’s something ultimately old-fashioned staging of Osage in Arizona, and company about Osage despite its contemporary setting. director Glen Coffman successfully handles Its long, three-act structure is one rarely seen the challenge of an ambitious ensemble piece. in today’s drama; the play wears its influences Together with Terry Erbe, Coffman proudly, readily evoking O’Neill and Williams. designed a set without any artificial walls, Letts has taken the genre and made it his keeping the small Beowulf stage as open and own, creating a bevy of twisted characters that spacious as possible. The effect is that of an will not soon leave your memory. And eerie, wall-less dollhouse. Even so, the set man- Winding Road Theater Ensemble brings this ages to suggest the interior of the Westons’ demanding ensemble piece to fiery life.

VISUAL ARTS A retrospective of Peter Young’s work at MOCA is a celebration of experimentation and process

Ricocheting Colors BY MARGARET REGAN, mregan@tucsonweekly.com n the wild art scene of mid-’60s New York, painter Peter Young was a wunderkind. He filled canvas after canvas with kaleidoscopes of colorful dots that careened around like so many exploding atoms, apt totems in an atomic age. Or he’d go the opposite route, making disciplined paintings painted a flat blue that echoed the sky, crisscrossed by tidy white lines. His process was important—and interesting. His energetic darting dots were methodically painted, and those lines on his flat, blue skies owed their regularity to masking tape. The art world paid attention. (Fun fact: at the time he was married to dancer and choreographer Twyla Tharp.) By the age of 25, he was selling his work through a major dealer. By the time he was 29, in 1969, he had become an important artist who “tinker[ed] incessantly with paintings’ fundamentals,” a New York Times critic would write years later. But he chucked it all in the early ’70s. After living with a tribe in Costa Rica and kicking around in Spain and Morocco, he landed in Bisbee in 1972. He bought himself an old miners’ hotel dirt cheap, and has lived there ever since. (Long active in the lively Bisbee art community, Young also volunteers at a migrant aid center across the border in Naco, Sonora.) In the years since he decamped, Young’s work has rarely been seen in New York, or even in Arizona. Then in 2007, the P.S. 1, a contemporary art space run by the Museum of Modern Art, staged a survey of Young’s works from the 1960s and 1970s. The show was greeted with rapturous praise. The Times called Young a “maverick Zenned-out hedonist who was also a process-oriented formalist with a sharp painterly intelligence, a genius for color and a penchant for the tribal and spiritual.” Nearly six years later, Tucsonans can see for themselves what the fuss is all about. MOCA Tucson has given over its entire firehouse museum to a retrospective of his work from the 1960s to the 1990s. Called Peter Young: Capitalist Masterpieces (a name Young once gave to a couple of works to critique the New York art market), the show exhibits 20 largescale paintings. “We’re ridiculously excited about this show,” director Anne-Marie Russell said in the galleries last week. The stark modernism of the museum’s Great Hall—a former garage for firetrucks—is an apt setting for Young’s paintings. The ricocheting colors and lines hang on pure-white walls, and their hues change hour by hour in the shifting light let in by the big windows. Though it’s not

hung chronologically, the show documents Young’s perpetual experimentation and search for new forms. All of the paintings are acrylics, but he pushes and pulls the paint in a multitude of exhilarating ways. Two of the blue paintings from 1966 (both in the MOMA show) hang on the west wall. “#5—1966” is a long horizontal stretch, easily 10 feet long and perhaps a foot and a half high. In New York, this restful work must have seemed like a snatch of blue glimpsed between the skyscrapers; here in Tucson, it conjures up the wide Western sky. The white lines that travel over the flat blue are arranged like the lines in a music staff, though there are seven lines rather than the staff’s five. Even so, they strike me as an allusion to the music that seems to infuse much of Young’s work. The companion painting, “#4 – 1966,” reverses the color scheme, with a white background underneath a blue outline drawing of bricks. The colors allude to clouds and sky, but they’re tamed and disciplined by the humanmade grid Young found in New York. Even one of his celebrated dot paintings, “#8—1967,” has that limited sky palette of white and blue, though the latter is more blue-jean than cerulean. About 7½-feet square, this acrylic at first glance seems to be a random explosion of painted dots. But a longer look reveals how carefully Young crafted his composition. The dots skitter along curling lines, but they cluster thickly in some sections and sparsely in others. The dense gatherings of dots suggest shadows, the whiter passages light, and before long you start seeing unexpected shapes coalesce out of the dots, like order emerging from chaos. Another early dot painting, “#11—1965,” is more organic, with messier, more undisciplined painted circles within circles. The colors are more varied too—along with the sky-blue, there’s lavender, beige, yellow and green; joining the dots are flowerlike figures in maroon, arranged to suggest a repeating quilt pattern. Young has also stretched the canvas in new directions. Instead of a rectangle, it’s shaped to suggest a cape or weaving, presaging, perhaps, the freer “tribal” art that would come a few years later. One of these tribal works, “#24—1972,” is a giant splatter painting, far looser than the dot paintings that preceded it. It’s thickly painted, in a proverbial riot of colors—red, mint green, yellow, black, white. But, again, the more you look at it, the more structure you begin to see. Diagonal lines slice through the splatters, and objects and shapes begin to emerge from the colors—including a kind of totem pole. To cre-

“#18,” (cropped) acrylic on canvas by Peter Young, 1974 ate these elusive forms, the always inventive Young folded the wet canvas in two, imprinting symmetrical mirror images on the canvas. And while he was making explosive dots and wild splatters, Young also tackled what must have been the tedious task of making weaving paintings. So intricate they make your head spin, these plaid pictures are composed of thousands of narrow lines that go under and over each other, like the warp and weft of yarns woven on a loom. The few works from the 1980s are also dizzyingly precise, with rigid bands of color that suggest early computer data cards—or later motherboards. Once again, as he did with the earlier darting atomic dots, Young ingeniously uses abstraction to reflect his time period. But after the tight plaids and computer cards, it’s a pleasure to see the loose and lovely paintings of the 1990s. In these fresh works, Young pencils in wonderfully free lines that zip all over the canvas, their overlapping curves creating a dancing composition of egg-shaped ovals. He never paints the ovals as single, solid objects, though; instead, he paints the crazy semi-triangles that turn up inside them. And all these paintings are double-layered, with seemingly unrelated under-paintings beneath the eggs. In one of these, “#70—1998,” Young once again proves himself a master of color. It has the messiest, drippiest and maybe even the

Peter Young: Capitalist Masterpieces Noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday, through March 31 MOCA Tucson 265 S. Church Ave. $8; free to all the first Sunday of the month, including this Sunday, Feb. 3. Always free to members and to kids 16 and younger, veterans, active military and public safety officers. 624-5019; www.moca-tucson.org Extra: Peter Young gives a museum talk at 5:30 p.m., this Friday, Feb. 1. $5 nonmembers; free to members. At 2 p.m., Sunday, March 3, the artist leads a tour of the exhibition. $10 nonmembers; $5 members. Limited to 20 guests; reserve a spot at info@moca-tucson.org. Young returns for a closing celebration from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, March 29; free to all. Mexican music from DJ Joven, cash bar, food trucks.

most joyful painting of any work in the show. He’s painted the fluttering triangles eggshell white, and beneath them is a symphony of Easter-egg colors, all purple and yellow and bright grass green, and wild stains and drips that are pretty in pink. Tucson Weekly arts editor Margaret Regan reports on the arts twice monthly on The Buckmaster Show, which airs from noon to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday on KVOI 1030 AM. Her next radio report will be broadcast live on Tuesday, Feb. 5.

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ART OPENING THIS WEEK ART SAFARI Member-galleries of the Central Tucson Gallery Association present a wide range of contemporary visual arts to encourage gallery-hopping beginning when galleries open at 11 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 2; free. Free receptions take place from 6 to 8 p.m. Visit ctgatucson. org for a list of galleries and a map. Call 629-9759 for more information. ATLAS FINE ART SERVICES Atlas Fine Art Services. 41 S. Sixth Ave. 622-2139. Albert Chamillard: Recent Work opens with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2, and continues through Saturday, March 30. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday; and by appointment Monday and Tuesday; free. Visit atlasfineartservices.com. CONRAD WILDE GALLERY Conrad Wilde Gallery. 439 N. Sixth Ave., Suite 195. 622-8997. Willow Bader: A Night to Remember, an exhibition of encaustic paintings inspired by the romance and nightlife of tango-dancing, opens with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2, and continues through Saturday, Feb. 23. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free.

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WEE GALLERY Wee Gallery. 439 N. Sixth Ave., No. 171. 360-6024. Chasing Julian, a solo show by Keith Marroquin, inspired by Southwestern archaeology, opens Saturday, Feb. 2, and continues through Saturday, Feb. 23. Hours are 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.,. Thursday through Saturday; free. WINTA FRESH Undisputed Gym. 1240 N. Stone Ave. 882-8788. Tucson’s fifth annual Graffiti Expo takes place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2; $5. The event features a mural incorporating the work of more than 50 Tucson artists, each of whom was allotted a four by eight-foot space. The event was established by Tucson artist Rock Martinez, whose work may be found across the U.S. WOMANKRAFT WomanKraft. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. Scenes From the Trails We Travel opens with a reception from 7 to 10 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2, and continues through Saturday, March 2. Gallery hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Saturday; free.

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CONTRERAS GALLERY Contreras Gallery. 110 E. Sixth St. 398-6557. Rocks, Trees and Water, an exhibit of watercolor paintings by Frank and Owen Rose, opens Saturday, Feb. 2, and continues through Saturday, Feb. 23. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free.

AKESO THERAPEUTIC MASSAGE Akeso Thearapeutic Massage. 4715 N. First Ave. 3495183. Tranquility, an exhibit of art by Christy Olsen, continues through Friday, March 8. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday and Wednesday; and 2 to 7 p.m., Friday. Call 777-1405 for information.

THE DRAWING STUDIO The Drawing Studio. 33 S. Sixth Ave. 620-0947. Brush Spirit, an exhibit of work prepared by Yoshi Nakano using traditional Japanese media, opens with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2, and continues through Sunday, Feb. 24; free. Visit thedrawingstudio. org for more information.

ARTSEYE GALLERY ArtsEye Gallery. 3550 E. Grant Road. 325-0260. Landings, an exhibit of work by Stephen Strom and Stu Jenks, continues through Thursday, Feb. 14. Hours are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; free. Visit artseye.com for more information.

JOEL D. VALDEZ MAIN LIBRARY Joel D. Valdez Main Library. 101 N. Stone Ave. 5945500. In Dreams, an exhibit of mixed media works on paper by Ellen Campbell, opens Friday, Feb. 1, and continues through Thursday, Feb. 28. An artist’s reception is held from 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 17. Hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday through Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Thursday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday; free. Call 791-4010, or email askalibrarian@pima.gov for more information.

BENTLEY’S HOUSE OF COFFEE AND TEA Bentley’s House of Coffee and Tea. 1730 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-0338. An exhibit of new paintings by Wil Taylor continues through Friday, Feb. 15. Hours are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sunday; free. Call 275-9484, or visit wiltaylor. com for more information.

KIRK-BEAR CANYON BRANCH LIBRARY Kirk-Bear Canyon Branch Library. 8959 E. Tanque Verde Road. 594-5275. Western Vistas, an exhibit of paintings and sculpture by Marcia Broderick, opens Saturday, Feb. 2, and continues through Thursday, Feb. 28. A reception takes place from 2 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 3. Hours are 10 a.m., Monday through Thursday; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday; and 1 to 5 p.m., Sunday; free.

CAMPUS CHRISTIAN CENTER ART GALLERY Campus Christian Center Art Gallery. 715 N. Park Ave. 623-7575. Power of Color and Contour, an exhibit of acrylic paintings on canvas by Tucson artist Carol Lucas, continues through Friday, March 8. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. CATAVINOS WINE SHOP AND TASTING ROOM CataVinos Wine Shop and Tasting Room. 3063 N. Alvernon Way. 323-3063. An exhibit of abstract landscapes and seascapes by Barbara Strelke continues through Thursday, Feb. 7. Hours are 4 to 8 p.m., Thursday through Saturday; free.

OLD TOWN ARTISANS Old Town Artisans. 201 N. Court Ave. 623-6024. Desert Abstractions, an exhibit of work by Tucsonan Jeff Ferst, opens with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2, and continues through Thursday, Feb. 28. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; free.

DEGRAZIA GALLERY IN THE SUN LITTLE GALLERY DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun Little Gallery. 6300 N. Swan Road. 299-9191. An exhibit of oil paintings and wood-block prints by Earl Wettstein and Southwestern art by Pam Davidson continues through Friday, Feb. 8. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily; free.

PHILABAUM GLASS GALLERY AND STUDIO Philabaum Glass Gallery and Studio. 711 S. Sixth Ave. 884-7404. Cast and Cut, featuring the work of Mark Abildgaard and Michael Joplin, opens with a reception from 5 to 8 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2, and continues through Saturday, April 13. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Call or visit philabaumglass.com for more information.

ETHERTON GALLERY Etherton Gallery. 135 S. Sixth Ave. 624-7370. Surface Tensions, an exhibit of works by Joel-Peter Witkin, Alice Leora Briggs and Holly Roberts, continues through Saturday, April 6. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; and by appointment; free. Visit ethertongallery.com for more information.

SONORAN GLASS ART ACADEMY Sonoran Glass Art Academy. 633 W. 18th St. 8847814. Mark Abildgaard discusses and demonstrates how he sand-casts his site-specific public-art sculptures, from noon to 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 3; free. The demonstration shows how a team of glassblowers make elements that might be used for an installation.

JOSEPH GROSS GALLERY Joseph Gross Gallery. 1031 N. Olive Road, No. 108. 626-4215. Language of the Land: Popular Culture Within Indigenous Nations and the New Wave of Artistic Perspectives, featuring the work of Chris Pappan and Ryan Singer, continues through Friday, March 29. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. Visit cfa.arizona.edu/galleries for more information.

SOUTHERN ARIZONA WATERCOLOR GUILD Southern Arizona Watercolor Guild Gallery. 5605 E. River Road, Suite 131. Experimental and Innovative Works in Water Media opens Tuesday, Feb. 5, and continues through Sunday, March 3. A reception takes place from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 7. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday; free. TUCSON SCULPTURE FESTIVAL An exhibit featuring an eclectic variety of sculpture by Tucson artists opens with receptions at the festival

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exhibit locations on Friday, Feb. 1, and continues through Thursday, Feb. 28; free. Receptions are at The Whistle Stop Depot, 127 W. Fifth St., from 6 to 9:30 p.m.; and the Sculpture Resource Center, 640 N. Stone Ave., from 8 to 11 p.m. For more information, visit tucsonsculpturefestival2013.blogspot.com.

LOUIS CARLOS BERNAL GALLERY Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery. PCC West Campus, 2202 W. Anklam Road. 206-6942. Rearranging the Sands, an exhibit that features the work of Joe Dal Pra, Ben McKee and Barbara Penn, and includes the video The Shadows of Men by Jason Stone, continues through Friday, March 8. On Wednesday, Feb. 6, a gallery talk takes place from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., and a reception takes place from 5 to 7 p.m. The gallery is closed Thursday and Friday, Feb. 21 and 22.

MARK SUBLETTE MEDICINE MAN GALLERY Mark Sublette Medicine Man Gallery. 6872 E. Sunrise Drive. 722-7798. Fred Harvey and the American Southwest, an exhibit of paintings by Dennis Ziemienski, continues through Friday, Feb. 15. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday. Visit medicinemangallery.com for more info. MESCH, CLARK AND ROTHSCHILD Mesch, Clark and Rothschild. 259 N. Meyer Ave. 6248886. The Artistry of Assemblage, a juried show of 30 pieces by 20 artists, continues through Friday, May 10; free. Hours are by appointment, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. Call or email ccanton@ mcrazlaw.com for more information. OBSIDIAN GALLERY Obsidian Gallery. 410 N. Toole Ave., No. 120. 5773598. An exhibit of ceramic sculpture by Thaddeus Erdahl and Hirotsune Tashima continues through Sunday, March 10. Hours are 11 a.m to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday; free. Call or visit obsidian-gallery.com for more information. PORTER HALL GALLERY Porter Hall Gallery. Tucson Botanical Gardens, 2150 N. Alvernon Way. 326-9686, ext. 10. An exhibit of work by Andra King continues through Wednesday, Feb. 13. Exhibits are included with admission. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., daily; $13, $7.50 age 4 through 12, free younger child, $12 student, senior and military personnel, includes admission to the park. Visit tucsonbotanical.org for more information. RAICES TALLER 222 ART GALLERY AND WORKSHOP Raices Taller 222 Art Gallery and Workshop. 218 E. Sixth St. 881-5335. ¡No Pasó! (It didn’t happen), an exhibition celebrating the failure of the world to end in 2012, continues through Saturday, Feb. 23. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Friday and Saturday. SCULPTORS’ MONTHLY MONDAY MEETUP Metal Arts Village. 3230 N. Dodge Blvd. 326-5657. Sculptors meet to welcome new colleagues, share ideas and discuss new techniques, at 10 a.m., the first Monday of every month. Call 795-9792 for more information. SHERATON HOTEL AND SUITES Sheraton Hotel and Suites. 5151 E. Grant Road. 3236262. Fall/Winter Fine Art Exhibit, featuring works by members of the Southern Arizona Arts Guild, continues through Sunday, April 7. The exhibit is open 24 hours, daily, on the first and second floors; free. SOUTHERN ARIZONA ARTS GUILD Miguel’s. 5900 N. Oracle Road. 887-3777. Monthly meetings at 8:30 a.m., the first Saturday of every month, feature a buffet breakfast, guest speakers, networking, socializing, promotion opportunities and critiques by qualified experts; $13, $10 member. Visit southernazartsguild.org, or call 574-6966 for more information. TEMPLE GALLERY Temple Gallery. Temple of Music and Art. 330 S. Scott Ave. 624-7370. David F. Brown: Life Boat continues through Tuesday, Feb. 26. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. Call 622-2823, or e-mail info@ethertongallery.com for more information. TOHONO CHUL EXHIBIT HALL Tohono Chul Exhibit Hall. Tohono Chul Park. 7366 N. Paseo del Norte. 742-6455. The Mayan Calendar continues through Saturday, Feb. 9. The Art of the Cosmos, an exhibit of astrophotography and other artworks inspired by the stars, runs through Sunday, March 24. Paper: From All Sides, an exhibit of the many characteristics of paper as interpreted by Tucson artists, runs through Sunday, April 21. An exhibit of student artwork from the Arizona School for the Deaf and Blind continues through Saturday, July 20. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; $8, $6 senior, $5 active military, $4 student with valid ID, $2 ages 5 through 12, free member or child younger than 5, includes admission to the park. Visit tohonochulpark.org for more information. TUCSON PIMA ARTS COUNCIL Tucson Pima Arts Council. 100 N. Stone Ave., No. 303. 624-0595. Inner Chambers, an exhibition of works by Lisa Agababian, Jonathan Bell, Elizabeth von Isser and Kyle Johnston, continues through Friday, March 15, in the lobby and No. 109. A reception takes place from 5:30 to 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2. Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; free. Visit tucsonpimaartscouncil.org for more information. UA POETRY CENTER UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. From What I Gather: Works by Karen McAlister Shimoda, continues through Wednesday, May 15. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday and Thursday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; free. Call or visit poetrycenter.arizona.edu for more information.

LAST CHANCE AQUA CALIENTE PARK RANCH HOUSE GALLERY Agua Caliente Park Ranch House Gallery. 12325 E. Roger Road. 749-3718. An Arizona Ramble, pastel landscape paintings and ceramic animal sculptures by Elizabeth Manfredi and Lewis Schnellmann, closes Thursday, Jan. 31. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. Call 615-7855 for more information. DESERT ARTISANS’ GALLERY Desert Artisans’ Gallery. 6536 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4412. The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Art Gala closes Sunday, Feb. 3. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; and 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Sunday. Visit desertartisansgallery.com for more information. EPIC CAFÉ Epic Café. 745 N. Fourth Ave. 624-6844. Epic Adventure in Art, an exhibit of Southwestern designs by Jill Williams, closes Thursday, Jan. 31. Hours are 6 a.m. to midnight, daily. THE JUNXION BAR The JunXion Bar. 63 E Congress, No. 109. 358-3761. The exhibit Dillinger Days: From Gangs of New York to Gotti, featuring images of real-life and movie mobsters, closes Thursday, Jan. 31. Hours are 4 p.m. to 2 a.m., Monday through Friday; and noon to 2 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; free. KRIKAWA JEWELRY DESIGNS Krikawa Jewelry Designs. 4280 N. Campbell Ave., No. 107. 322-6090. A juried exhibition of one-of-a-kind jewelry by Tucson jewelry artists closes Thursday, Jan. 31. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday; free. TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Tucson International Airport. 7250 S. Tucson Blvd. 573-8100. An exhibit of works by Cima Bozorgmehr, Betina Fink, Katya Micklewight, Barbara Strelke and Dee Transue closes Saturday, Feb. 2, in the Lower Link Gallery; free. The gallery is open 24 hours every day. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CHURCH Unitarian Universalist Church. 4831 E. 22nd St. 7481551. Three-Cycle, an exhibit of mixed-media work incorporating recycled materials by Rand Carlson, Barbara Brandel and Sara Spanjers, closes Sunday, Feb. 3. Hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday through Friday; and and 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Sunday; free. ZOË BOUTIQUE Zoë Boutique. 735 N. Fourth Ave. 740-1201. Art and ornaments by a dozen Tucson artists are featured for sale through Thursday, Jan. 31. Hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Saturday; free admission.

OUT OF TOWN BIOSPHERE 2 CENTER Biosphere 2 Center. 32540 S. Biosphere 2 Road. Oracle. 838-6200. The Art of All Possibilities, an interdisciplinary exhibition that relates art to the scientific research, architecture and culture of Biosphere 2, continues through Thursday, Feb. 28. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily; $10 to $20. RANCHO LINDA VISTA Rancho Linda Vista. 2436 W. Linda Vista Road. Oracle. An exhibit of landscapes in oil or pastel by Betina Fink opens with a reception from 2 to 5 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 3, and continues through Thursday, Feb. 28. Hours are 1 to 4 p.m., Sundays, or by appointment. SUBWAY GALLERY Subway Gallery. 30 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 432-9143. Animal Art continues through Thursday, Feb. 7. Hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday through Sunday; free. Visit subwaygallerybisbee.com for more information TUBAC PRESIDIO STATE HISTORIC PARK Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Southwestern Vistas, an exhibit of landscape paintings by Tubac artist Walter Blakelock Wilson, continues through Tuesday, April 30. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., daily; $5, $2 ages 7 through 13, free younger child. VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS GALLERY Ventana Medical Systems Gallery. 1910 E. Innovation Park Drive, Building No. 2. Oro Valley. 887-2155. Plein air works by Judy Nakari, Jane Barton, Lou Knight and Walter Porter are featured at a public reception with complimentary hors d’oeuvres from 5 to 7 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 31. WESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION Western National Parks Association. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Exhibits, demonstrations and sales of traditional Native American

arts take place from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., on selected Fridays and Saturdays. Feb. 1 and 2: Mata Ortiz pottery and Zapotec rugs. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 15 and 16: Oaxacan wood-carving and painting. Admission is free. WESTERN NATIONAL PARKS ASSOCIATION KIVA GALLERY Western National Parks Association Kiva Gallery. 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive. Oro Valley. 622-6014. Michael McNulty Botanical Photography closes Thursday, Jan. 31. Hours are 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; free. The gallery is closed for lectures from noon to 1 p.m., and from 2 to 3 p.m., Wednesday and Saturday. Visit wnpa.org for more information.

ANNOUNCEMENTS BICAS COMMUNITY ART STUDIO BICAS. 44 W. Sixth St. 628-7950. Community members are invited to use the work space, donated art supplies, tools, sewing machines and recycled bike parts for personal projects, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday; free. CALL FOR ARTISTS Tucson Arts Brigade seeks artists to create work on 22-by-30-inch high-quality paper that will be provided. The finished works will be included in a traveling artshow fundraiser, and auctioned sometime in 2013. Artists receive promotion, plus 30 percent of the auction amount for their work. The deadline for submissions is Friday, Feb. 1. Phone 623-2119, email curator@ tucsonartsbrigade.org, or visit tucsonartsbrigade.com for more guidelines and information. CALL FOR ARTISTS WomanKraft. 388 S. Stone Ave. 629-9976. Submissions are sought for several upcoming exhibits. Deadlines are Saturday, Feb. 2, through Saturday, March 30; Saturday, March 23, for Drawing Down the Muse, works by women, Saturday, April 6, through Saturday, May 25; and Saturday, June 22, for It’s All About the Buildings, Saturday, July 6, through Saturday, Aug. 24. Call for more information. CALL FOR CLOTHING DESIGNERS The deadline is Monday, Feb. 11, for applications to participate in Tucson Fashion Week in October. Visit tucsonfashionweek.com for an application; email tucsonfashionweek@gmail.com for more information. CALL TO ARTISTS Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Submissions are sought for the Arizona Biennial 2013. $30 for three works. Entry forms, fees, CDs and videos are due by 4 p.m., Friday, March 22. Guest curator Rene Paul Barilleaux will jury submissions. The exhibit opens with a reception from 6 to 8 p.m., Friday, July 19, and continues through Friday, Sept. 27. Call 6242333, ext. 125, or email jsasse@tucsonmuseumofart. org for more information. THE FIBER SHOP Bisbee Community Y. 26 Howell St. Bisbee. (520) 432-3542. Works by members of the Bisbee Fiber Arts Guild are displayed for sale every Friday and Saturday through Friday, March 1. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; free admission. TINY TOOLE GALLERY Tiny Toole Gallery. 19 E. Toole Ave. 319-8477. Sculpture, painting and contemporary bronze works are displayed from 8 p.m. to midnight, the first Saturday of every month; free. UNDERGROUND ART GALLERY AND ART ANNEX BICAS. 44 W. Sixth St. 628-7950. A nonprofit gallery showcases hand-crafted art, jewelry and functional objects that reference bicycles or cycling culture or are created from re-purposed bicycle parts, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday in the Underground Art Gallery, and from noon to 5 p.m. in the Art Annex in Unit 1 D; free. Visit bicas.org for more information.

MUSEUMS EVENTS THIS WEEK ARIZONA STATE MUSEUM Arizona State Museum. 1013 E. University Blvd. 6216302. Basketry: An Essential Part of Life, an exhibit of paintings illustrating basketry in ritual and everyday life, continues through Thursday, Feb. 28. Basketry Treasured, an exhibit of 500 pieces from the museum’s collection of Southwest American Indian basketry, which is the world’s largest, continues through Saturday, June 1. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; $5, free youth younger than 18, active-duty military and their families, people with business in the

building and everyone for public events. Visit statemuseum.arizona.edu for more information. CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY Center for Creative Photography. 1030 N. Olive Road. 621-7968. The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith, 1957 to 1965, a national touring exhibit of more than 200 vintage black and white prints and several hours of rare recordings, continues through Sunday, March 10. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; and 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; free. Visit centerforcreativephotography.org for more information. DEADLY MEDICINE Arizona Health Sciences Center. 1501 N. Campbell Ave. 626-7301. Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, an exhibit featuring high-quality scans of artifacts and documents assembled by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, continues through Sunday, March 31, in the library. Hours are 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday through Thursday; and 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Friday and Saturday. DEGRAZIA GALLERY IN THE SUN DeGrazia Gallery in the Sun. 6300 N. Swan Road. 2999191. The Way of the Cross continues through Monday, April 15. Watercolors runs through Wednesday, July 31. Ted DeGrazia Depicts the Life of Padre Eusebio Francisco Kino: 20 Oil Paintings is on permanent display. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily; free. Call or visit degrazia.org for more information. THE JEWISH HISTORY MUSEUM The Jewish History Museum. 564 S. Stone Ave. 670-9073. The Ketubah Exhibit, an exhibit of wedding apparel dating to the 1600s, continues through Thursday, Feb. 28. The exhibit includes an 18th-century gold-bullion-thread wedding cap, and the gown worn by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at her wedding to Capt. Mark Kelly. Hours are 1 to 5 p.m., Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday; and noon to 3 p.m., Friday; $5, free member. Visit jewishhistorymuseum.org for reservations and more information. MOCA MOCA. 265 S. Church Ave. 624-5019. An exhibit of Peter Young’s large-scale abstract paintings from the 1960s to the present continues through Sunday, March 31. Hours are noon to 5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday; $8, free members, children younger than 17, veterans, active military and public-safety officers, and everyone the first Sunday of each month. Call or visit moca-tucson.org for more information. PHOTO FRIDAYS Center for Creative Photography. 1030 N. Olive Road. 621-7968. An opportunity for the public to view portfolios of unframed photographs presented according to a different topic each month, takes place from 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., the first Friday of every month. Feb. 1: Interiors. TUCSON MUSEUM OF ART Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Elements in Western Art: Water, Fire, Air and Earth continues through Friday, June 14. Desert Grasslands, works by 18 artists exhibited as part of the Desert Initiative Project: Desert 1, runs through Sunday, July 7. Art + the Machine continues through Sunday, July 14. Femina: Images of the Feminine From Latin America runs through Saturday, Sept. 14. The traditional holiday exhibit, El Nacimiento, runs through Saturday, June 1. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., Thursday; noon to 5 p.m., Sunday; closed Monday and Tuesday; $10, $8 senior, $5 college student with ID, free age 18 or younger, active military or veteran with ID, and TMA members; free the first Sunday of every month. Visit tucsonmuseumofart.org for more information. UA MUSEUM OF ART UA Museum of Art. 1031 N. Olive Road. 621-7567. Broken Desert - Land and Sea: Greg Lindquist and Chris McGinnis, part of the UA’s Desert Initiative: Desert 1, exploring human impact on nature, runs through Sunday, March 3. The Samuel H. Kress Collection and the altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo are on display until further notice. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Friday; and noon to 4 p.m., Saturday and Sunday; $5, free members, students, children, faculty and staff with ID. Visit artmuseum.arizona.edu for more information. WOMEN POTTERS OF MATA ORTIZ POTTERY EXHIBITION AND JURIED SHOW Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 2021 N. Kinney Road. 883-2702. More than 230 women potters have submitted more than 150 original pieces for a juried competition and sale that continues through Sunday, Feb. 3. Exhibit hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; $14.50, $5 ages 4 to 12, includes admission to the museum. visit desertmuseum.org for more information.

LITERATURE EVENTS THIS WEEK FIRST SATURDAY BOOK CLUB Flowing Wells Branch Library. 1730 W. Wetmore Road. 594-5225. A book club meets for coffee and conversation at 10 a.m., the first Saturday of every month; free. Call for the current title. UA POETRY CENTER UA Poetry Center. 1508 E. Helen St. 626-3765. Maps, an exhibit about how poets use the concept of maps to explore space, place and the passage of time, opens Monday, Feb. 4, and continues through Wednesday, April 17. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Monday and Thursday; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday; and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday; free. Call or visit poetrycenter.arizona. edu for more information.

OUT OF TOWN LILI DE BARBIERI: A GUIDE TO SOUTHERN ARIZONA’S HISTORIC FARMS AND RANCHES Tubac Presidio State Historic Park. 1 Burruel St. Tubac. 398-2252. Lili DeBarbieri discusses and signs her book about the terrain, heritage, culture, working life and cuisine of Arizona’s historic farms and ranches, at 2 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2; $7.50 includes admission to tour the park. Call or visit tubacpresidiopark.com for more information. LOCAL AUTHORS SERIES Joyner-Green Valley Branch Library. 601 N. La Cañada Drive. Green Valley. 594-5295. Local authors discuss their books at 2 p.m., on selected Tuesdays; free. Feb. 5: Linda Laird, American Grain Elevator: Function and Form.

ANNOUNCEMENTS ABBETT MYSTERY BOOK CLUB Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Branch Library. 7800 N. Schisler Drive. 594-5200. Discover and talk about new authors in a friendly atmosphere at 2 p.m., the first Tuesday of every month; free. CALL TO SHORT-FICTION WRITERS Entries are due Monday, March 11, for the Kore Press 2013 short-fiction contest. Prizes are $1,000 and publication in a chapbook; $15 entry fee. Visit korepress.org for more information, and use the Kore Press submission manager to enter. LAMPLIGHT READING SERIES Casa Libre en la Solana. 228 N. Fourth Ave. 325-9145. This decades-old series features readings by well-known Tucson writers and an open mics for poets, performance artists and writers from 4 to 6 p.m., the first Sunday of every month. Call 490-2002 for more information. NONFICTION BOOK CLUB: ‘TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION’ Dusenberry River Branch Library. 5605 E. River Road. 594-5345. A book club focusing on nonfiction meets at 1:30 p.m., the first Monday of every month; free.

LECTURES EVENTS THIS WEEK ARCHAEOLOGY CAFE Casa Vicente Restaurante Español. 375 S. Stone Ave. 884-5253. John Welch discusses the history of the White Mountain Apache Tribe’s collaborative efforts to restore the Fort Apache Historic District, at 6:15 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 5; free. Socializing starts at 5 p.m.; nohost dinner is from the menu. ART LECTURE SERIES Murphy-Wilmot Branch Library. 530 N. Wilmot Road. 594-5420. Docents from the UA Museum of Art lecture at 2 p.m., the first Friday of every month; free. Feb. 1: “The Pfeiffer Collection: An Essay in Social Realism,” Johanna Stein. DESERT GRASSLANDS Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. In conjunction with the TMA’s exhibition Desert Grasslands, Greg McNamee signs and discusses his book about the tension between mining and ecological interests at Otero Mesa, New Mexico, from 6 to 8 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 31; free with admission. Admission is $10, $8 senior, $5 college student with ID, free age 18 or younger,

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BOOKS Matt Méndez’s debut is a rich collection of stories showing several sides of El Paso

Tales of West Texas BY NICK DEPASCAL, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com att Méndez’s story collection, Twitching Heart, is an impressive and engaging debut from an author with much promise. Blending gritty reality with a touch of the strange and surreal at times, these interconnected stories are intimately tied to place, specifically, El Paso, Texas, as they follow their characters through various triumphs and tragedies. Though decidedly dark in subject and tone, the stories still make room for humor, and the individual stories as well as the collection as a whole leave the reader with a new understanding of what it means to hope. Throughout the collection, Méndez masterfully makes El Paso and its sister city, Juárez, come alive through the eyes of his characters. El Paso, or Chuco, as it’s affectionately known, appears both beautiful and terrifying, often reflecting the mindset of the characters experiencing it at the time. Either way, the city is given those specific details that make it stand out in its particularity. As when we learn that “Chuy realized how much he loved Chuco, especially in the early morning when nobody was around to see the night thin and the sunrise over the mountains. The spiky bushes and cactuses with flowers blooming on them, sucking up the orange light.” Or in a later story, when Flores, a rundown old man who chased his dead love to Juárez years earlier, prepares to die at the hands of the angel Uriel: “Set to die Flores walks the Avenida Juárez for the final time, camera hanging around his neck. The red and blue lights on police trucks flash; street vendors push their carretas across clogged streets, making their way toward the bridge to sell homemade jewelry and candy and bootleg movies to Americans happy to be heading back across.” The cities in Twitching Heart refuse to be archetypes and are allowed to display both beauty and squalor, as all cities do. Thus, Méndez performs the neat trick of making El Paso seem both special and common, a city the reader can relate to while still being surprised. It’s also clear that the author has a great love for his characters and great skill at getting to their hearts swiftly and forcefully. Méndez takes the time to understand his characters before he writes them, as each comes across fully formed with their passions and desires intact and lovingly detailed by their creator. Without wasting space, Méndez is able to amply capture his characters’ beings and motivations. In “Tacos Azteca,” a particularly heart-wrenching story,

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Méndez introduces the reader to Israel, whose love for cooking dies along with his son. But Méndez gives us a glimpse into Israel’s passion for food, and for his future wife, when he is tasked with making a champurrado for his future wife’s father: “With the ingredients in front of him, Israel got busy. He mixed the masa with water and simmered it on the stove, adding splashes of milk and chocolate and clumps of piloncillo; he made sure to get the ingredients smooth before straining the drink into the old man’s cup.” Méndez understands that it is sometimes those mundane actions that characters perform that give us the greatest insight into their psyches. Throughout the collection, the reader is constantly meeting characters both recognizable and complex, characters that push the reader deeper into the narrative. Méndez is also quite adept at intertwining the stories in Twitching Heart, and doesn’t feel bound to space and time in how his characters exist and interact in El Paso. The characters are sometimes the sons and daughters or grandsons and granddaughters of characters from other stories, or sometimes through a twist of fate they share the same name. Thus, Perla, the older main character in one of the collection’s best stories, “All Anything’s Worth,” returns in the final story, “The Last Ones on Earth,” a post-apocalyptic vision of the Southwest many years in the future, in the form of another Perla, who is tangentially connected to the earlier Perla by a used copy of Juan Rulfo’s novel Pedro Páramo. Méndez never belabors the connections between his characters, though, instead allowing the subtle repetition of names and images to strike the reader on their own. They’re less recurring characters than echoes and Méndez handles these echoes with the deft touch of a poet. These connections that on a first read might seem fantastic, upon further examination and thought seem to follow those same strange rules of coincidence that occurs in real life, again grounding Méndez’s gritty stories in reality while still leaving room for strangeness and magic to occur within their pages. There is much to like and admire in Méndez’s first collection of stories. His fully developed characters and settings bring the reader deep into their world and keep readers wanting more. One can only imagine what will come next.

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1. Flight Behavior: A Novel Barbara Kingsolver, $28.99 2. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy, $12.95 3. The Hobbit J.R.R. Tolkien, $8.99 4. In Sunlight and in Shadow Mark Helprin, $28 5. Life of Pi Yann Martel, $15.95 6. Les Misérables Victor Hugo, $6.95 7. The Round House Louise Erdrich, $27.99 8. The Light Between Oceans: A Novel M. L. Stedman, $25 9. The Fault in Our Stars John Green, $17.99 10. Beautiful Darkness Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, $9.99

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GENOMICS NOW UA Centennial Hall. 1020 E. University Blvd. 6213364. The UA College of Science presents a series of lectures exploring the role of DNA and how it expands our understanding of life, at 7 p.m., every Wednesday, through March 6; free. Feb. 6: “The Genesis of the 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic.” Feb. 13: “Genomics and the Complexity of Life.” Details about presentations and speakers are at cos.arizona.edu/ genomics. Call 621-4090 for more information. TEA TALES Mini-Time Machine Museum of Miniatures. 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive. 881-0606. Miniaturist Craig Roberts, known as “The Hairy Potter” speaks at 2 p.m., Friday, Feb. 1; $10, free member, includes tea and deserts. Call for a reservation; visit theminitimemachine.org for more information. TMA BREAKFAST CLUB Tucson Museum of Art. 140 N. Main Ave. 624-2333. Art talks take place over brunch from 10 a.m. to noon, on selected Tuesdays; $35. Feb. 5: Julie Sasse, chief curator and curator of modern and contemporary art, discusses the intersection of art and nature. A tour of the exhibit Desert Grasslands follows. Visit tucsonmuseumofart.org for more information. UA MUSEUM OF ART UA Museum of Art. 1031 N. Olive Road. 621-7567. Lectures are from 5 to 7 p.m., selected Thursdays; free. Jan. 31: “Wildcats in the Desert,” Lisa Haynes, coordinator of the UA Wildcat Research and Conservation Center. Feb. 7: “Is Mars a Desert?”, Peter Smith, principal investigator of NASA’s Phoenix Mars Mission. UA SCHOOL OF ART VISITING ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS SERIES Center for Creative Photography. 1030 N. Olive Road. 621-7968. A series of speakers discuss how art practice and scholarship can produce critical awareness about ideologies and create new meaning for familiar objects. Lectures are at 5:30 p.m., Thursday; free. Jan 31: Andrea Zittel. Visit cfa.arizona.edu/vase for more information. WOMEN IMPACTING TUCSON Arizona Inn. 2200 E. Elm St. 325-1541. Consultant Dale Dillon presents, “Social Media for You: It’s Not Your Daughter’s Facebook,” at a luncheon from 11:20 to 1 p.m., Monday, Feb. 4; $25. Reservations are requested. Call 323-3100 for reservations.

OUT OF TOWN ART TALKS Joyner-Green Valley Branch Library. 601 N. La Cañada Drive. Green Valley. 594-5295. Docents from the Tucson Museum of Art give talks at 2 p.m., every Wednesday, through March 27; free. Feb. 6: “Seeing Jazz,” Kay Jensen. JACK LASSETER: APACHE TACTICS Community Performing Arts Center. 1250 W. Continental Road. Green Valley. 399-1750. Jack Lasseter describes the strategies and tactics of various Apache bands and the soldiers of Spain, Mexico and the United States, at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 5; $18, 15 advance. Visit performingartscenter.org for tickets and more information. LIVING WITH NATURE LECTURE Joyner-Green Valley Branch Library. 601 N. La Cañada Drive. Green Valley. 594-5295. “Connecting Mountain Islands and Desert Seas: The Sky Islands of Southeastern Arizona” is presented at 10 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 2; free. Call 209-1812 for more info.

UPCOMING IRCA, ‘CRIMINAL ALIENS’ AND THE POLICING OF IMMIGRATION UA Education Building. 1430 E. Second St. Jonathan Xavier Inda discusses how the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 laid groundwork for contemporary policing and removal of immigrants, and the criminalization of undocumented workers, at 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 7; free. Call 621-4587 for more information. MORE THAN 50 SHADES Himmel Branch Library. 1035 N. Treat Ave. 594-5305. The Saguaro Chapter of the Romance Writers of America presents a panel discussion, Q&A and workshop, from noon to 4 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 9; free. Reservations are suggested.

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CINEMA Donald Westlake’s character, Parker, could be worthy of a series of films, but hopefully starring someone else

Suits and Disguises, Yes; Acting Skill, No TOP TEN Casa Video’s top rentals for the week ending Jan. 27, 2013

BY COLIN BOYD, cboyd@tucsonweekly.com ason Statham does a couple of things well. Neither of them are acting, but there’s a place in the movies for guys who look believable doing their own stunts and fights, driving their own cars and wearing finely tailored suits. Statham is usually in the deep end of the pool with a bank safe chained to his back when it comes to acting, but for an action star, he’s reliable. His latest film, Parker, features Statham driving much less, and wearing both suits and disguises, so that’s real progress. Parker is a career thief, the kind of guy who’s done it for so long he can just nonchalantly steal the first car with an unlocked door that he sees, without worrying about being stopped. (He swipes at least a half-dozen cars in this movie.) After a particularly profitable job goes sour, Parker vows revenge on the crooks who left him for dead after taking his share of the proceeds. Because he had never worked with them before, tracking them down takes a little bit of detective work. Mind you, killing them isn’t required, because he has a sense of propriety, but it could get ugly. Eventually, the trail leads him to Florida, where Parker dons a cowboy hat and creates a phony identity as a Texas oilman on a househunting trip. The San Antonio accent, as you might expect, lands a TKO on Statham. Whether it was intentionally that bad or this was simply as good as it could get is anyone’s guess. The final essential piece of the puzzle is Leslie (Jennifer Lopez), a realtor who unwittingly gets wrapped up in her client’s revenge plot. Though he’s never appeared on screen with his actual name, Donald Westlake’s Parker character has appeared in many films over the years. The author never fully released the rights to his novels because he wanted Parker to become a series. Of course, Westlake— under the nom de plume Richard Stark— wrote two-dozen Parker novels, so that was never likely to happen. But Payback, the Mel Gibson flick from the late 1990s, is a Parker story. Point Blank with Lee Marvin is another. Actually, those are versions of the same story, although Parker has different names in each for some reason. So why does Statham get to christen Parker as a full-fledged movie character and not Gibson, Marvin, or even Robert Duvall or NFL Hall-of-Famer Jim Brown? After Westlake died a few years ago, his widow finally allowed producers to purchase the rights to the novels. There are elements of this film that show promise. The opening sequence, a heist at the Ohio State Fair, is pretty good. Counting the

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Nicloe Kidman in The Paperboy.

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CINEMA Other critics are offended by the idea of ‘Movie 43,’ but Bob dislikes the gross-out film’s execution

Laugh-out Disappointment BY BOB GRIMM, bgrimm@tucsonweekly.com didn’t like Movie 43, a new-millennium attempt at something akin to Kentucky Fried Movie, all that much. Many critics across our great nation dislike this film. I guess I have to join the fray and say this movie doesn’t work as a whole. But I won’t be trashing it because it crosses many lines, is terribly offensive and often screamingly disgusting. I’m a little demented when it comes to comedy, so I say bring on the farts, excessive curse words and scrotum necks. However, if you are going to do a gross sketch comedy, you had better do gross well. Your jokes better have the proper punch lines and kickers, and your sketches have to end strong. Many of the sketches in Movie 43 end like a bad Saturday Night Live sketch, one of those misfires where you can see the players just sort of standing around looking confused. And a good chunk of the sketches, which are directed by multiple directors, just aren’t funny. Many of them land with a thud. First, I’ll talk about the good stuff. I must give props to real-life couple Naomi Watts (a current Oscar nominee) and Liev Schreiber for their very funny turns as a couple proudly home-schooling their son. They want their kid to get the full boat high school experience, so they humiliate him, alienate him, nail him with dodge balls and ultimately try to make out with him. Yes, I laughed hard at this. Simply stated, Movie 43 would’ve been better if it had been 90 minutes with these nuts. I must also praise Terrence Howard as a black basketball coach who gets fed up with his youngsters being afraid of a bullying white team. Yes, this joke has been done to death, but Howard sells it big time. This is one of the sketches that ends badly, but not before Howard had me laughing out loud. Johnny Knoxville and Seann William Scott kidnap a foul-mouthed leprechaun (Gerard Butler) and excessive violence and obscenity ensues. Real-life couple Anna Faris and Chris Pratt deal with her wanting him to poop on her but make it romantic, and Jason Sudeikis gives us a commentary on Supergirl’s (Kristen Bell) bush. Believe it or not, there are some laughs to be had in these uneven segments. Hugh Jackman (another current Oscar nominee) shows up for a blind date with Kate Winslet sporting testicles on his neck. This would be the first time in movie history where an Oscar nominee, mere weeks away

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from 2012 films, that might be the one that I remember the most. Grimm

Reviews by Colin Boyd and Bob Grimm.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is back and nobody gives a damn, apparently. He plays a sheriff in a border town who finds himself squaring off with a drug cartel baddie and his cronies. Johnny Knoxville shows up as the kooky sidekick, and Luis Guzman shows up and does his Luis Guzman thing. Arnie is in good form; it’s the film that feels stale. It feels like 12 movies you’ve seen before cobbled together as a warm-up for a guy who has been out of the game for a few years. It’s too bad. Arnie should’ve made his comeback vehicle something where he was fighting aliens or trading quips with Danny DeVito. This mediocre rip-off of Assault on Precinct 13 doesn’t do him justice. Oscar winner Forest Whitaker plays an FBI agent who spends most of the film yelling into telephones and staring at computer screens. I seriously doubt there is going to be a sequel to this thing, and judging by its poor reception, I’m wondering if big studios are going to get behind Schwarzenegger again. He’s talking about more Terminator movies, a new Conan, etc. It might not be a good idea to bank on him at this point. Grimm

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NEWLY REVIEWED: HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS

This seriously had the makings of the worst, dumbest movie ever made. Hansel and Gretel, the famed gingerbread-house eaters, survive their ordeal to become world-class witch hunters. The result is bad, but it’s one of those so-bad-it’s-almost-good endeavors. Jeremy Renner somehow got talked into this thing, and he gives it his best shot, as does Gemma Arterton as his sister, Gretel. Famke Janssen is on hand as a mean witch who plans to take the blood of a bunch of children and do something or other with it. I wasn’t really following, or caring. The 3-D is bad, so go ahead and opt for 2-D. It’s got Peter “Where is Pancakes House?” Stormare in it too, which is usually the mark of a bad film unless its Fargo. Lots of blood and curse words get this one an R rating. Director Tommy Wirkola seems as if he’s playing it for camp at times, and that would’ve been the better move for the whole film. It really slows down when it takes itself too seriously. Grimm HECHO EN MÉXICO

Elizabeth Banks in Movie 43.

Movie 43 Rated R Starring Elizabeth Banks, Richard Gere and a number of other actors who should have known better

Eye-opening and ear-opening, the documentary Hecho en México explores the rich culture and history of our neighbor to the south through its art and artists. Music plays an essential role in Mexican society and the film as well, with folk, rap, traditional Mexican sounds and even political rock providing not just a soundtrack but also a focal point. For a film that is such a celebration of a distinct culture, it’s surprising that Hecho en México was directed by a Brit, musician and filmmaker Duncan Bridgeman. His passion for the subject is obvious, however, and keeps the film from becoming just a long music video. Bridgeman paints a colorful picture of emerging sounds in Mexico, with terrific cinematography matching each song and performance. Boyd

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from hearing if he has won the golden boy, appears on screen with hairy balls protruding from his neck. I’m thinking that this little moment in movie history will cost Mr. Jackman a few votes. It’s also not funny. Another sketch (directed by Elizabeth Banks) features Chloe Moretz and her Kick-Ass co-star Christopher Mintz-Plasse. It has a, not surprisingly, menstruation theme. Moretz gets her first period after her first kiss and two brothers spaz out until their dad (Patrick Warburton) comes home and doesn’t help the situation. Another dud. Even worse would be Elizabeth Banks starring in a post-credits segment that has her getting peed on by a masturbating/animated cat. And even worse than that would be a Truth or Dare sketch where Oscar winner Halle Berry makes guacamole with surgically enhanced breasts and gets a dick tattooed on somebody’s face. Far worse than that would be a skit where Emma Stone and Kieran Culkin talk dirty at a supermarket, unwittingly broadcasting their dirty talk over the PA system. Worst of all would be Richard Gere as an executive confused at the notion that young boys are trying to have sex with the iBabe, an MP3 player that looks like a supermodel but has a nasty, member-mangling exhaust fan in its nether region. The bad far outweighs the good, and that’s what makes Movie 43 a loser in the end. I dare Hugh Jackman to wear his scrotum neck on the Oscar red carpet.

Holy cow … Ginger Baker, former drummer of Cream and somehow still walking the Earth, is totally crazy. This documentary does a good job of displaying just how crazy and nasty he is. Through fairly recent interviews and archival footage, you get the whole deal, from his days with Cream through his stint in South Africa. This movie starts with Baker cracking the director in the face with a cane, a moment that isn’t staged at all. He bloodies the director’s nose while threatening to put him in the hospital (Baker has played a lot of polo in his life, and he has pretty good form when wielding his cane). Jay Bulger’s documentary is a fun watch, a true rock story. This is a guy who looks like he’s bloody well done, and then he just manages to get up behind a kit again and make the magic happen. He is one of the greatest drummers to ever walk the planet. He stands alongside the great Keith Moon as a rock god. And, man, is he ever crazy. Grimm BROKEN CITY

Mark Wahlberg plays a private investigator caught in a high-stakes political game in Broken City, one of many New York crime dramas that gets neither New York nor being a crime drama close to correct. It’s a film with a lot of jagged parts—a corrupt mayor (Russell Crowe) who seems like the kind of City Hall power broker even the 1980s got tired of; a cloudy mystery that may or may not just be about an extramarital affair; a silly girlfriend subplot that apparently exists only so Wahlberg’s private eye can fall off the wagon at a critical moment; and even the private eye himself, another staple of a bygone movie era. But all of these things are supposed to seem contemporary, which only makes it worse. Set it in the 1980s and Broken City could have at least risen to mediocrity. Boyd THE IMPOSSIBLE

A family struggles to survive in Thailand after the massive 2004 tsunami that claimed more than 230,000 lives. Naomi Watts is Oscar-worthy as Maria Belon and Ewan McGregor is equally good as her husband, Henry. The two are on Christmas vacation with their children when the tsunami hits, and they become separated. Tom Holland gives one of the great breakthrough performances of 2012 as their oldest son. Amazingly, the film is based on real people and their actual experiences. Director Juan Antonio Bayona has made a respectful film about one of the worst recorded disasters in human history. It’s a testament to the people who lost their lives, and those who survived. Watts will tear your heart out, especially when she lets out her first, terrifying scream. Of all the images that stuck in my head

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This genuinely chilling haunted fairytale comes from producer Guillermo del Toro and writer/director Andres Muschietti, and is based on Mushcietti’s original short film. Two little girls are abandoned by their demented father in the forest. They are discovered years later and adopted by their uncle (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) and his girlfriend (Jessica Chastain). The little girls have taken on the characteristics of feral beasts and are convinced they are being watched over by a force they call “Mama.” As it turns out, Mama is very real, and a decent CGI creation that is both scary and just the right touch of funny. The film works not just because Muschietti knows how to construct a good scare, but also because he does a great job getting you to care for the little girls and the Chastain character. Chastain, looking rather gothic in this one, delivers another good performance, even though she isn’t very convincing as a bass player in a punk band. I was scared throughout much of this movie. Grimm

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Although not one of the truly great Disney animated films, this is still a good watch even if Peter Pan is kind of a jerk. Walt Disney had been trying to make an adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s story of a boy who never grows old for years, but WWII got in the way. It finally hit screens in 1953, and while it wasn’t as visually charming as past Disney efforts, it still had some artistic heft, and was the last feature that Disney’s “Nine Old Men” animators worked on together as a whole. I remember the storyline confused me a bit when I was a kid because Wendy and her brothers always talked of having seen Peter Pan before the events in this movie. That used to baffle me. And I always hated how they left Nana the dog floating like a balloon with a nooselike rope around its neck when Peter and the kids took off for Neverland. Peter Pan was voiced for the first time by a dude (Bobby Driscoll). Driscoll, a famous child actor, fell on hard times soon thereafter, dying as a pauper in Greenwich Village and buried in an unmarked grave at the age of 31. Man … this is supposed to be a review of a happy children’s movie, isn’t it? As a kid, I thought Tinker Bell was a villain. Now, well … actually I still see her as a villain. And I feel bad for Captain Hook, whom Peter Pan toys with and maliciously taunts with an alligator. Geez … Peter Pan was kind of an ass. No matter, this is still fun to watch. And, I must add, the Peter Pan ride at Disneyland remains one of my favorites. SPECIAL FEATURES: A nice new documentary in which children of the “Nine Old Men” reminisce about their fathers. You also get some deleted scenes and songs and a commentary from Roy Disney.

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I had no idea who Rodriguez was before I popped this movie into my player. He was a Detroit musician who released a couple of albums in the early ’70s and then disappeared. Some said he committed suicide on stage by setting himself on fire or shooting himself in the head. I’m giving a big part of the movie away right now, so don’t read any further if you don’t want to know the movie’s big secret. As it turns out, Rodriguez didn’t kill himself. He just left the music biz and led a normal, secluded life. I’ve listened to his albums, and he is very good. He was, and is still, a major sensation in South Africa, but he had no idea he had achieved fame elsewhere in the world. After his albums bombed stateside, he went back to being a construction worker. The makers of the movie seek him out, and find him in Detroit. He eventually makes a pilgrimage to South Africa, where he is bigger than Elvis. He’s actually touring right now, coming to Tucson’s Rialto Theatre on April 19 between his appearances at Coachella the Sunday before and after. It’s an amazing story, told in a very good film. Interviews with Rodriguez, his family, and his supporters reveal that this is a nice, talented guy who deserved a musical career. He’s got one now, thanks in part to this film. SPECIAL FEATURES: A director’s commentary that also features Rodriguez is a must listen. You also get a decent making-of, and a Q-and-A session at the Tribeca Film Festival.

Without a doubt, this was one of the best releases of 2012, and it further establishes writerdirector Martin McDonagh as a creative force to be reckoned with. McDonagh assembled a stellar cast, including Colin Farrell (who also starred in McDonagh’s brilliant In Bruges), Sam Rockwell, Christopher Walken and Woody Harrelson. Farrell plays Marty (a character McDonagh undoubtedly modeled upon himself), a screenwriter struggling through his latest project. His movie involves seven psychopaths and the characters might, just might, be based upon people he actually knows. McDonagh writes some of the funniest and most shocking dialogue out there, and he gets masterful performances from everybody involved, especially Walken and Rockwell. Walken is allowed to be as strange and eccentric as ever, while Rockwell gets his best role in years. It’s a role that allows him to show off that funny, nasty charm that makes him entirely unique. A subplot involves Rockwell and Walken kidnapping a crime boss’s (Harrelson) dog for ransom, and it all leads up to a surprising, and somewhat violent, conclusion. This one ranks with Barton Fink and Adaptation as one of the better films about the frustrations of writing. SPECIAL FEATURES: There are only a few short behind-thescenes featurettes. The movie is great, but the features are disappointing.

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Ala Buzz Café Coming; Ditto More Frozen Yogurt A new restaurant is opening in the former Izzi’s Café space at 12985 N. Oracle Road in Oro Valley. Starting Monday, Feb. 4, Ala Buzz Café will be providing “good home cooking at a decent price,” according to its website. The restaurant will be open from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily and will offer breakfast, lunch, and dinner. From the looks of the website (alabuzzcafe.com), the owners appear to have an interest in classic American muscle cars, and there’s talk of the restaurant becoming the home of car shows and other car-related events. In other new-restaurant news, a frozen yogurt joint called Yogurtland looks like it’s close to opening at 2800 N. Campbell Ave., at East Glenn Street.

BY JACQUELINE KUDER, jkuder@tucsonweekly.com very job has its downside, and one of the unintended consequences of being a food writer is that if you write a rave review about a relatively unknown restaurant, the masses will descend upon it, potentially ruining a place (or at least making it impossibly busy). For instance, I’m a fan of Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations, and when he went to a restaurant in Rome to enjoy a classic pasta dish, he didn’t name the restaurant for the sake of preserving it from the hordes of well-meaning tourists. I certainly don’t pretend that my twice-monthly reviews have the clout of Bourdain. In fact, for the sake of my sanity, I prefer to pretend that I’m writing for a small group of friends rather than the entire readership of the Weekly, or to pretend that no one reads my articles at all. But the reality is that, for better or worse, publicity drives traffic. The Sausage Shop Meat Market & Deli is nothing short of a carnivore’s paradise. I’m originally from the Midwest, and the place looks like it was plucked out of a small town in Wisconsin or Minnesota in the ’50s, and deposited unchanged into a small Tucson strip mall with terrible parking. There are more than 50 sandwiches on the menu, a good mix of both hot “sammies” and cold, and while you’re waiting for them to assemble your oversized, messy, delicious creation, it’s fun to peruse the wide variety of sausages, burgers, cured and smoked meats, cheese and other goodies in the fridge and freezer case. All of the sandwiches at the Sausage Shop cost between $5 and $7 and come with a bag of chips—not that you’ll have room for the chips if you eat the whole sandwich. There also is an array of house-made goodies, including kraut, slaw, potato salad, macaroni salad and several types of pickles. The most vexing part of both of my ventures to the small sandwich joint was deciding what to order. Indoor seating is nonexistent, since the shop covers just a few hundred square feet, and outdoor seating is minimal, with a few creaky picnic and patio tables in the strip mall walkways. It’s definitely a “to-go” type of joint, but I wouldn’t recommend trying to eat any of the sandwiches we tried while driving—unless you’re looking for a lapful of sandwich drippings. On weekdays between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., there’s usually a long line out the door, so we timed our visits for Saturdays and offhours to avoid the crunch. If it’s at all possible, I strongly suggest that you do the same. The sandwiches are incredible. The Rosco and Rufus (both $6.61) were like tiny testaments to the greatness of smoked meats.

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The Sausage Shop’s Rufus, a hot deli sandwhich with pulled pork, hot link sausage, bourban barbecue sauce and cole slaw, on toasted marble rye. The Rosco was grilled, sliced corned beef piled Sausage Shop Meat on top of a Polish dog (halved lengthwise) and Market & Deli topped with sauerkraut, Swiss cheese and 1015 W. Prince Road, Suite 141 Thousand Island dressing, all on marble rye; the 888-1701 (no website) Rufus was of the same persuasion, except with Open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. pulled pork, a hot link sausage, cole slaw and to 5 p.m.; Saturday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. barbecue sauce. Now, I’m quite sure it’s Pluses: Delicious sandwiches; house-made unnecessary, and probably inadvisable, to have sausages; huge selection; quick service both a sausage AND a pile of slow-cooked meaty Minuses: No parking; limited seating; packed deliciousness stuffed between two pieces of between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. weekdays beautifully nutty rye bread, but it’s absolutely delicious. The few bites of bread-and-butter-style pickles, table pickles (also in slice/chip form) and cheesesteak establishments in Tucson—go there. The Blue Ox is an unusual combo of German potato salad ($1.25 for each half-pint) brisket, barbecue sauce, blue cheese dressing that we managed to get in while downing the and blue cheese crumbles. Don’t order it on gluttonous sandwiches were really, really good. anything but a hoagie roll unless you’ve It’s a good thing that my grandmother doesn’t prepared yourself with a collection of wet read this paper, because the pickles and potato wipes, and maybe a bib. salad at the Sausage Shop sure beat the hell out So, Tucson, I implore you to please visit the of hers. Sausage Shop Meat Market & Deli. Enjoy messy, Though the Rosco and Rufus were our clear tasty sandwiches. Buy delicious meats and favorites, the Old Pueblo Cheesesteak and the sausages, take them home, and cook them—I Blue Ox (also both $6.61) were nothing short of delightful. The cheesesteak is not what you’ll find took home several brat varieties to try out during NFL playoffs, including some with in Philly, but it’s a good, solid, tasty sandwich habaneros, some with blue cheese and green with brisket, pepperjack cheese and soft, sweet chiles, and some good ol’ beer brats. But please grilled peppers and onions. If you’re a tread lightly on this hidden Tucson gem. Let’s cheesesteak purist, and you need Whiz and leave it unchanged and unique. giardiniera, there are at least two respectable

Ten 55, a nanobrewery, is holding its grand opening on Saturday, Feb. 2. I’m told that the beer will be plentiful, with food and music to accompany it. The event starts at noon and lasts till “late.” What “late” means will depend on how many show up to celebrate this addition to the local brewing scene. The four beers on tap include one called Sugar Skull Sweet Stout. The brewery is at 3810 E. 44th St., near South Dodge Boulevard. For more info, head to 1055brewing.com.

New Cocktail bar at Espresso Art Café Castalian Spring, named after the springs at Delphi where ancient Greeks sought divine inspiration, is the name of the new cocktail bar tucked inside Espresso Art Café, 942 E. University Blvd. The bar, with furniture built of recycled lumber from a home built in the 1880s, is aimed at creating an oasis from the hubbub of the surrounding neighborhood, and filling a void in the area.

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Thursday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5-11 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Tavolino is now a shiny, chic kind of placeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and it didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t miss a beat in the move. The appetizers are fresh and fabulous. The pastas will delight. (Try the tagliatelle alla Bolognese; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s killer.) Other entrĂŠes, especially those coming off the grill, are great examples of how Italian food is supposed to be. Service is most professional. (8-12-10) $$-$$$ TRATTORIA PINA NE 5541 N. Swan Road. 577-6992. Open Monday-

Friday 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-9 p.m.; Saturday 4:30-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, MC, V. Some individual dishes shine, but others would do well to be avoided. If you order carefully and bring the right company, the spectacular mountain views can seduce you into a moment of sheer well-being. (11-30-00) $-$$ VERONA ITALIAN RESTAURANT E 120 S. Houghton Road. 722-2722. Open Tuesday-

Sunday 4-9 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. DIS, MC, V, Checks. With more than four dozen entrĂŠes to choose from, there are options aplenty at Verona. The portion sizes are huge, too. And the taste? Our veal Florentine and chicken picatta were divine, as were the desserts. The far eastside has itself a winner. (11-6-03) $$-$$$ VIROâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ITALIAN BAKERY AND CAFE E 8301 E. 22nd St. 885-4045. Open Tuesday 9 a.m.-6

p.m.; Wednesday and Thursday 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DIS, MC, V, Checks. This charming little Italian joint serves up meaty sandwiches, fresh breads and pastries, pizzas and a handful of pasta dishes, along with impressive daily specialsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;-including a Sunday breakfast buffet that may be one of the best brunch deals in town. (10-25-07) $-$$

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Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. La Encantada has itself a gem in NoRTH, brought to you to the folks behind Wildflower and Zinburger. The pastas, fish and pizzas are all tasty, if a bit pricey, but the view pushes NoRTH over the top. (2-26-04) $$$-$$$$ PIAZZA GAVI

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Monday 4-8 p.m.; Tuesday-Thursday and Sunday 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. CafĂŠ/ Beer and Wine. DIS, MC, V. What a pleasant surprise Vitelloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cozy; the staff is friendly; and the menu has just about everything Italian you might crave. The sauces range from a house marinara to a creamy vodka to a rich gorgonzola to a briny white clam. The pizzas are also quite good; theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re simple and rustic. Panini, salads, veal, chicken, seafood and dishes are also available. The cannoli is like Nana used to make. (1-13-11) $-$$$ VIVACE C 4310 N. Campbell Ave. 795-7221. Open Monday-

Thursday 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, MC, V. If thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something Vivace doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do well, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never been able to discover what it is. Lots of innovative pasta dishes, grilled meats and fresh seafood distinguish the menu, along with salads, appetizers and desserts to die for. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a bustling bistro that deserves its ongoing popularity. (4-26-01) $$-$$$ ZONA 78 NW 78 W. River Road. 888-7878. Open daily 11 a.m.-

10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Also at 7301 E. Tanque Verde Road (296-7878). Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s casual; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cool; and the food makes the most of many fine Italian items (goodies from Willcox and Australia are also a big part of the scene). The bar is a great place to hang out while you enjoy one of the many wines or house specialty drinks. The pizzas are stone-fired with great combos, or you can build your own. This is definitely a place to be a regular. (7-6-06) $$

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Thursday 7 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. For anyone who loved the small trattorias that were the hallmark of the Gavi empire, this place may seem cavernous. But size doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t matter. Gavi brings all its wonderful touches to this roomy eatery: good food, giant portions and friendly service. The choices are plentiful; there are

JAMAICAN CEEDEE JAMAICAN KITCHEN E 1070 N. Swan Road. 795-3400. Open TuesdaySunday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Counter/Full Bar. DIS, MC,

V. Yes, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find jerk chicken here (and oh, what heavenly jerk it is), but there are plenty of other island specialties to choose from as well: curry chicken, oxtails, plantains and more. The side called festival is like a hush puppy, only bigger and better. Desserts are unusual but tasty; the cold drinks refresh. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bob Marley music, and the staff is friendly. The only thing missing here is the beach. (10-21-10) $-$$

KOREAN KIMCHI TIME C 2900 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 186. 305-4900. Open Monday-Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m.; Sunday 4-9 p.m. CafĂŠ. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. As you would expect from the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name, kimchi is the star at Kimchi Timeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s good stuff. Adventurous diners will love the bibim bap and the kimchi chigae (kimchi soup with pork and tofu), while unadventurous types will love the katsu and the bulgogi. Go there; the five complimentary kimchi plates served with each meal are worth the trip in and of themselves. (9-27-12) $$ KOREA HOUSE E 4030 E. Speedway Blvd. 325-4377. Open Monday-

Thursday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 5-9:30 p.m. Diner/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Bulgoki of fire and flavor, and mouth-watering grilled beef ribs, Korean-style. Good noodle soups, also. $-$$ SEOUL KITCHEN E 4951 E. Grant Road. 881-7777. Open MondayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m.; Sunday 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Bistro/Beer and Wine. AMEX, MC, V. Seoul Kitchen dishes up quick, affordable and authentic Korean food with a smile. The crab puffs are a canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t-miss item, and be prepared to be overwhelmed with tasty side dishes and banchan plates. Portions are generous, and the food is delicious; you definitely wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave hungry. (2-11-10) $-$$

LATIN AMERICAN CONTIGO COCINA LATINA NW 1745 E. River Road. 299-1730. Open MondaySaturday 5-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Contigo adds a touch of class and chic to Tucsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s restaurant scene with delicious Spanish, South and Central American-inspired dishes and inventive cocktails. Serving up twists on classics from these regions, Contigo puts a focus on sustainably sourced ingredients. With lots of seafood and vegetarian options, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something for every palate. (8-19-10) $$$ DON PEDROâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PERUVIAN BISTRO S 3386 S. Sixth Ave. 209-1740. Open MondaySaturday 10:30 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 10:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Bistro. Beer and Specialty Drinks. DIS, MC, V. Don Pedroâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, a transplant from Rocky Point, Sonora, is a big part of the growing Peruvian-cuisine scene in Tucson. With mild flavors and quick, friendly service, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a tasty vacation for your palate from the sea of southside Mexican-food restaurants. (3-3-11) $$ DOS LOCOS NW Hilton El Conquistador, 10000 N. Oracle Road.

544-5000. Open daily 5-11 p.m. Full Cover/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, MC, V. Dos Locos easily holds its own in the limited local nuevo Latino market. If its dishes lack the unusual imagination of those at, say, CafĂŠ Poca Cosa, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a restaurant that lets you feel a little daring, without really straying too far afield. (12-6-07) $$-$$$ INCAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S PERUVIAN CUISINE NE 6878 E. Sunrise Drive. 299-1405. Open Tuesday-

Sunday 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Bistro. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. DIS, MC, V and checks. Incaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is the place to go for a twist on the usual meat and potatoes. Warmly decorated with friendly service and delicately spiced food, Incaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offers dishes that are truly unique. The pollo entero (whole roasted chicken), the ceviche mixto and the pisco sour are canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t-miss hits. Make sure you make a reservation. (4-1-10) $-$$ MAYA QUETZAL C 429 N. Fourth Ave. 622-8207. Open Monday-

Thursday 11:30 a.m.-8:45 p.m.; Friday and Saturday noon-8:45 p.m. Summer hours: Monday-Thursday 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m. and 5-8:30 p.m.; Friday and Saturday noon8:45 p.m. CafĂŠ. Beer, Wine and Specialty Drinks. MC, V. Nearly magical yet simple taste combinations from the Yucatan and Central America are featured. You can almost taste the green of the tropics in Maya Quetzalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vegetable and nut-meat combinations. $ MIGUELâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S NW 5900 N. Oracle Road. 887-3777. Open daily 11

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p.m.; Friday-Sunday noon-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Enjoy regional Mexican dishes in a lovely setting. Plenty of seafood and other entrĂŠes are served up in unique and tasty sauces. A tequila loverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heaven with choices aplenty. (10-7-04) $$-$$$ TUCSON TAMALE COMPANY C 2545 E. Broadway Blvd. 305-4760. Open MondayFriday 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday 8 a.m.-7 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. The Tucson Tamale Company offers a great origin story: Intuit executive decides to follow a dream by starting a tamale business in the middle of a heinous economy. The Tucson Tamale Company also offers some delicious food: Try the Santa Fe tamale, with pork loin, green chiles, cheddar, tomatoes and garlic. Vegans and those with gluten allergies have plenty to eat here, as the masa is gluten-free. Get a dozen tamales to go; they reheat easily and quickly in the microwave. (3-12-09) $

MARKET EUROPEAN MARKET AND DELI E 4500 E. Speedway Blvd., No. 36. 512-0206. Open Monday-Saturday 9 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. A smattering of EasternEuropean beers, wines, sweets, liquors and other groceries makes this market/deli unique. Fast, friendly service and tasty classics round out the menu along with a wide selection of deli meats and cheeses. (1-29-09) $

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LEE LEE ORIENTAL SUPERMARKET NW 1990 W. Orange Grove Road. 638-8328. Open daily 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Lee Lee Oriental Supermarket is far more than an average grocery store. With thousands of products that span the globe, along with fresh produce, meats and seafood, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re sure to discover some new favorites. Thuan Kieu Vietnamese restaurant (open daily, 10:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m., cafĂŠ) has an extensive selection with really fresh, tasty ingredients, and Nan Tian BBQ (open Wednesday through Monday, 10:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., counter) serves up all kinds of barbecued delicacies, from chicken and duck feet to whole roasted suckling pigs. (5-6-10) RINCON MARKET C 2513 E. Sixth St. 327-6653. Open Monday-Friday 7

a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday 7 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Counter/No Alcohol. AMEX, DIS, MC, V, Checks. Open as a neighborhood market since 1926, Rincon Market today is known for its wide variety of fresh, inexpensive foods. In the dining area, there are options aplenty: deli sandwiches, a large salad bar, a grill, baked goods, coffees, rotisserie chicken and more. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an iconic Tucson place to grab a quick, simple, delicious meal. (7-14-05) $ TIME MARKET C 444 E. University Blvd. 622-0761. Market open daily 7 a.m.-10 p.m. Deli open Monday-Thursday 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Counter/Beer and Wine. MC, V. Time Market is four things in one. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a top-notch deli; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a popular woodfire pizza joint; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a coffee bar; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a quirky market full of hard-to-find foods. With a friendly staff and reasonable prices, Time Market is a longtime Tucson favorite. We recommend the green gringo sandwich, mixing a green corn tamale with shredded chicken, cheddar, salsa and green olives on sourdough. Yum! (7-14-05) $-$$

MEXICAN BIRRĂ?A GUADALAJARA C 304 E. 22nd St. 624-8020. Open daily 7 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Counter/Diner/No Alcohol. Cash only. One of the best quick-stop Mexican food venues in town. The carne asada and birrĂa burros are standouts. $ BKâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S S 5118 S. 12th Ave. 295-0105. Open Sunday-Thursday 9 a.m.-midnight; Friday and Saturday 9 a.m.-2 a.m. Counter/No Alcohol. MC, V. Also at 2680 N. First Ave. (207-2245). Nothing fancy, nothing grand, just a boatload of some of the best carne asada youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re ever likely to sample. A scrumptious salsa bar with lots of goodies to complement your tacos, quesadillas or caramelos (quesadillas with carne asada) is a delightful bonus, and the Sonoran hot dogs put the usual ballpark fare to shame. $ BLANCO TACOS AND TEQUILA NW 2905 E. Skyline Drive, No. 246. 232-1007. Open Sunday-Thursday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. Another addition to the Fox restaurant empireâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and the second Fox restaurant at La Encantadaâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is yet another winner. Excellent updated Sonoran food, crackling

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CAFĂ&#x2030; POCA COSA C 110 E. Pennington St. 622-6400. Open TuesdayThursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. DIS, MC, V. For years, owner Suzana Davila has delighted residents and visitors alike with her Like Water for Chocolate style of Mexican food. The sauces at CafĂŠ Poca Cosa are extraordinary, reflecting an intricate blend of chiles and spicing as unusual as they are delicious. Pile on the incredible purĂŠed salsa, and try not to miss the mole and pipian. (4-1300) $$-$$$

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EL MINUTO CAFĂ&#x2030; 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.-11 p.m. CafĂŠ/Full Bar. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. El Minuto CafĂŠ has been serving Tucson some of the best Mexican food around for more than 60 years. The chiles rellenos simply canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be beat. $-$$

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Thursday 7 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 7 a.m.noon. CafĂŠ/Beer and Wine. AMEX, DC, DIS, MC, V. Crossroads has been around for decades, and when you taste the restaurantâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s food, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll know why. Traditional Mexican fare and seafood dishes primarily featuring shrimp and filet of sole highlight the menu. The service is friendly, and if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in a hurry, you can get anything on the menu to go; you can even get a six-pack to take home. (7-24-03) $-$$

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Thursday 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; Friday 11 a.m.-2 a.m.; Saturday 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sunday 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-10 p.m. Bistro/Full Bar. AMEX, DIS, MC, V. This longtime Tucson favorite continues to please with one of the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most unique dining areasâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the main room is an old courtyard thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now indoors, even though real trees and plants remain. The foodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth noting, tooâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; some dishes are hit-and-miss, but youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll always win with the fantastic tableside guacamole. (1-1-04) $$-$$$

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routine developed: “It’s my Saturday, put the baby down, and get over to Matt’s. Let’s get drinking and eating some food. Hop in the pool. I’ve always had that little handheld recorder on me. Something gets in your head, and you’re, like, ‘I’d better get this down.’” After several songs were completed, Rendon and Spillers began adding musicians, starting with bassist Jeremy Schliewe, also a member of The Resonars. And with the excitement came some self-imposed pressure. “We invited Jeremy to lay down a bass line on a track,” says Spillers. “That guy’s awesome, and the next thing you know he’s there every other Saturday, too. But it was also after we added him and then Scott (Landrum, keyboards), there’s three guys sitting around, and I gotta write this shit faster. ‘Just give me 10 minutes!’” After several months, 20 songs were completed and ready to be mixed at Waterworks Recording Studio by Jim Waters. Unbeknownst to the other band members, Rendon started spreading the word about the Freezing Hands. Among those who received recordings was Sean Bohrman of Burger Records, an independent label based in southern California that specializes in releases on cassette tape. (Burger releases albums by The Resonars, among other Tucson bands.) Rendon says he sent out the recordings because, “I thought it would be fun, and funny.” Says Spillers: “Matt sent it to Sean without even telling me. He just said, ‘I figured I’d do that. I hope you’re not mad.’” Bohrman was extremely impressed with what he heard, and informed Spillers the following day that Burger Records wanted to release the band’s music as an 11-song cassette. “I wouldn’t have sent it out in the first place,” Spillers says. “But that’s good. That’ll be 150 more people that get it.” So what do we get? Eleven tracks of great, soulful rock and roll, informed by, but not anchored to, the classic British Invasion groups and American garage rock bands of the mid1960s. The songs run the gamut from the deceptively bouncy rave-up “Pretty Ann” to the don’t-take-the-brown-acid psych nightmare of “Old Grey Mare” back to the surreal rock ‘n’ roll portrait “Cake & Doughnuts Awesome!” “Lyric-wise, I haven’t changed a lot over the years. They’re typically funny, and some songs are about friends who have died, and there’s stuff about how ridiculous people are. Life is pretty funny to me, so it’s pretty natural.” says Spillers. There is, however, nothing funny about the album’s high point, the moving “Numbers for Sale.” Lowering his voice a few octaves below his typical helium-huffing range, Spillers gets serious: “Every Good Friday we want to spend

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or Travis Spillers, change is good. From his days playing guitar with seminal punk-rockers Los Federales, and cofronting pioneering garage-rockers the Knockout Pills, he’s kept moving artistically. With the Freezing Hands, the 40-year old has hit his creative stride, crafting what will surely be one of the year’s finest albums. And now, the story: “Everything happened within a year. I met my wife, the Knockout Pills fell apart. I was really jazzed and into the band at the time, but I said to myself, ‘I’ll just keep going and do something else.’ That felt fine. For a year, I stopped playing music.” This hiatus was short-lived. Married, with the first of two sons on the way, Spillers caught the music bug again, filling his time with the bands FANNS, and then the self-described “dumb-rock” act the Creamys. By the summer of 2011, he was a full-time student and father, but the musical ideas that would become the Freezing Hands were beginning to take shape. “How great would that be to write an album a year and keep up that pace?,” he says. “I had a vault of 20-second beginnings to myriad songs,” and he brought those fragments to his friend and ex-Knockout Pill Matt Rendon, who plays drums in the Freezing Hands. “It started out going to Matt’s the occasional Saturday night, ‘cause I don’t get out very often, and we’d just drink beers and see if we can rip through some parts of songs. A lot of times, I had a whole melody; we’d think of a refrain for the song, and if we could do it, we’d get it down within an hour and lay down the basic tracks because I have another one! A lot of times we’d get two songs done in a night,” he explains. Inspired by the Raspberries, Badfinger, Sparks, and other ‘70s power-poppers, Spillers and Rendon were tracking mostly on an old analog cassette 4-track machine, an anomaly in this era of Pro Tools computer recording. At his Coma Cave Studio, Rendon, who also fronts The Resonars, records everything this way, preferring the warmer quality that real tape lends to music, despite it being a rather arduous and time consuming process. “It’s simple for me. It gets natural compression that makes clean sounds a little dirty,” Rendon says. There’s also another reason: “I’m just stubborn. I’m more concerned with the making of music rather than the nuts and bolts of learning new gear.” Spillers’ increasing responsibilities as a family man forced him to focus on songwriting and recording on the fly. “I’m lucky to get out twice a month and get over there [to Coma Cave]. I had no time to sit around and work on the songs. That’s why it happened over there.” So a

Freezing Hands with The Resonars, Shark Pants, and Discos 9 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 2 Poblano Hot Sauce Factory (for location info, check the Freezing Hands Facebook page) Admission is free

following parasite people who don’t give a shit about love, and it’s tearing us up like a hurricane blowing us into the sea,” he intones. Why, what, who, where, and how? “You could point it at hippies; you could point it at anybody that’s like ‘this is what love is’ and they jam it down your throat … especially people that you need to care about, for whatever reason, for whatever banner you want to carry,” he explains. “You’re like, ‘Why do I have to expend so much fucking energy on people who don’t give a shit about me, and that I can try to care for, and it’s like spinning your wheels.’” The major changes in Spillers’ life in the last few years have indeed changed his perspective on everything. “Having kids drastically changes your life and how it operates. It’s a whole different sort of love that you feel. Do I think I would’ve made the same record without those kids? Probably so, ‘cause a lot of the same kind of feeling was happening in my life. That period of five or six years ago, I had all sorts of little epiphanies happen at once [that helped inspire the songs].” While Spillers writes the songs, with Rendon, Schliewe, and Landrum essentially backing him up, he does not undersell their major contributions to the Freezing Hands’ debut. He says, “They’re enablers and co-writers. I feel extremely fortunate … and I hope we keep doing that, ‘cause I have a whole digital recorder full of another album.” “I can make something entirely different each time and feel pretty good about it. Following whatever sort of fancy you have at the time.” And then Spillers laughs and says, “Whether it sucks or not doesn’t really matter.”

It’s been five years since Beck graced the world with a new album of music, but only two months since he unleashed his latest batch of songs. How is that possible, you ask? In today’s hyper-frenetic cyber-world, it certainly must incorporate technology, right? Since there are songs, but no album, is it just a series of individual downloads that we can upload directly into our brains? Some sort of glasses that will allow us to see the music? Hints: Think 1913, not 2013. And, I never said he recorded those songs. Song Reader is a collection of 20 songs that were written by Beck and published by McSweeney’s as a book of sheet music at the beginning of December. It’s a lavish package: fullcolor artwork for each song by a number of acclaimed artists; a hardcover slipcase; an introduction by Jody Rosen and a preface by Beck; and then, of course, the songs: “Bringing them to life depends on you,” it says on the publisher’s website. Plenty of people, groups, and ensembles have already done so. Head to the book’s dedicated website, www.songreader.net, and you’ll find links to recordings and videos of hundreds of performances of the songs by people from around the world. If it seems like a trendy, steampunk-inspired endeavor, well, yeah. Maybe. In an interview on the McSweeney’s website (mcsweeneys.net), Beck actually makes a cogent argument about why the project, which he’s been working on since 2008, was alluring to him. “It’s true that songs used to be written not only to catch people’s ears, but to make them want to play them themselves,” he explains. “That’s a radically different mindset for a songwriter. The entertainment factor has to be in the songwriting itself. When I was getting into music, it had become something that was tied more to the studio process than the kind of auteur songwriting that was popular before—the music got its power from studio techniques. Those studio sounds and processes didn’t always translate to a cheap acoustic guitar the way a Hank Williams or a Buddy Holly song could. There’s nothing wrong with studio techniques, but I was aware, growing up, of that division between the sounds I could make and the ones I was hearing on the radio. It was probably one of the reasons I was drawn to folk and country blues. That other continuum of songs, the ones that are meant to exist in the hands of those who play them for themselves, still feels like a valuable separate space.” Fair enough. But what good is a bunch of new Beck songs if the average music fan doesn’t have a way to hear them performed properly (if there is such a thing, in this case). Enter the Portland Cello Project, an Oregonbased cello ensemble. A mere nine days after the Song Reader book hit the shelves, the PCP had digitally released an album containing versions of

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YOAKAM RETURNS During a recent conversation with an old friend, she asked me if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d heard 3 Pears, the new album by Dwight Yoakam, which she raved about. Not only had I not heard it, but I was unaware heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d even released a new album. Maybe itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because after he released 2005â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Blame the Vain, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d effectively disappeared from the landscape, surfacing briefly in 2007, when he released an album of Buck Owens covers. Or maybe, just maybe, Yoakam has been putting out classic albums by the handful since he emerged with his 1986 debut, Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc., and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve simply come to take him for granted. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to remember now, but when that debut album hit the shelves in â&#x20AC;&#x2122;86, it represented an island of genuine honky-tonk and country in the ocean of pop-country-by-thenumbers that was ruling the country charts at the time. For the most part, country radio has only gotten worse since then, so thank goodness weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve still got olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Dwight around to keep it real. Sure, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got a lot of likeminded compadres these days, playing real country music; but for all intents and purposes, Dwight Yoakam was alt-country before there was such a thing. Dwight Yoakam performs at 7:30 p.m. next Thursday, Feb. 7, at the Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress St. Advance tickets were $47 to $79, but the show appears to be sold out at press time. For more info about the show, go to foxtucsontheatre.org.

QUICK TAKES The Daniel Johnston show postponed from its original Nov. 10, 2012, date will take place at Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St., on Saturday, Feb.2. Reubens Accomplice is still on the bill as the opener, and tickets purchased for the original date will be honored at 46 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

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the door. The show is 18-and-over and begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are $20 in advance, $22 on the day of show. Head to hotelcongress.com/ club or call 622-8848 for more info. If you missed our original preview of the show, you can find it in our Nov. 8, 2012, issue (http:// www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/soundbites/ Content?oid=3571439). Socio-politically conscientious rapper Murs brings The Road to Paid Dues Tour to the town he calls home this week for a show at Club Congress, 311 E. Congress St., on Monday, Feb.4. The 18-and-over show will also feature sets by Prof and Fashawn, who gets things rolling at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $15. Hotelcongress.com/club and 622-8848 are the places to get more details. One of a handful of arts and performance spaces that have sprung up around town in the last year, Topaz, at 657 W. St. Maryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Rd., will celebrate its one-year anniversary with a blowout show this week called Dune Drift II, â&#x20AC;&#x153;an annual music, film, and art event.â&#x20AC;? The allages show begins at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 3, and will feature musical performances by Womb Tomb, Dream Sick, former Arizona resident Stephen Steinbrink (aka French Quarter), Upside Drown, and Rory Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Rear. There will be an art show featuring works by Joie Estrella, Sharon Moon, and Claire Mirocha among others. And the evening will also serve as the release party for a Topaz-curated, limited edition 16-song cassette compilation featuring tracks by Ohioan, Jess Matsen, Algae & Tentacles, Secret Highway Secrets, Young Hunter and lots more. Admission is a paltry $3, but bring a few more bucks for the tape and refreshments. For more info check out the eventâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Facebook page.

ON THE BANDWAGON Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lots more great stuff happing around town, so be sure to check out our listings sections. In the meantime, a tiny sampling: American Idol winner Kris Allen at Plush on Friday, Feb. 1; Coed Pageant, Jacob Acosta, Anikaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Basement Show, and Boreas at Tucson Live Music Space on Wednesday, Feb. 6; Second Saturdays Downtown featuring Silverbell and many more on Saturday, Feb. 2; Prank War, Parasol, Monster Pussy, and The Pork Torta at Tanline Studio next Thursday, Feb. 7; the Lord Bird Dog, Caethua, Algae & Tentacles, and Secret Highway Secrets at The HangArt on Tuesday, Feb. 5; Sleep Like Trees, Antique Scream, and Shit Ton at La Cocina on Friday, Feb. 1.

CLUB LIST Here is a list of venues that offer live music, dancing, DJ music, karaoke or comedy in the Tucson area. We recommend that you call and confirm all events. APPLEBEE’S ON GRANT 4625 E. Grant Road. 319-0544. APPLEBEES ON WETMORE 565 E. Wetmore Road. 292-2600. ARIZONA INN 2200 E. Elm St. 325-1541. ARMITAGE WINE LOUNGE AND CAFÉ 2905 E. Skyline Drive, No. 168. 682-9740. THE AULD DUBLINER 800 E. University Blvd. 206-0323. AZUL RESTAURANT LOUNGE Westin La Paloma, 3800 E. Sunrise Drive. 742-6000. THE BAMBOO CLUB 5870 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 524. 514-9665. THE BASHFUL BANDIT 3686 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-8996. BEAU BRUMMEL CLUB 1148 N. Main Ave. 622-9673. BEDROXX 4385 W. Ina Road. 744-7655. BEST WESTERN ROYAL SUN INN AND SUITES 1015 N. Stone Ave. 622-8871. BIG WILLY’S RESTAURANT AND SPORTS GRILL 1118 E. Sixth St. 882-2121. THE BISBEE ROYALE 94 Main St. Bisbee. (520) 432-6750. THE BONE-IN STEAKHOUSE 5400 S. Old Spanish Trail. 885-4600. BOONDOCKS LOUNGE 3306 N. First Ave. 690-0991. BRATS 5975 W. Western Way Circle. 578-0341. THE BREEZE PATIO BAR AND GRILL Radisson Suites. 6555 E. Speedway Blvd. 731-1414. BRODIE’S TAVERN 2449 N. Stone Ave. 622-0447. BUFFALO WILD WINGS 68 N. Harrison Road. 296-8409. BUMSTED’S 500 N. Fourth Ave. 622-1413. CAFÉ PASSÉ 415 N. Fourth Ave. 624-4411. THE CANYON’S CROWN RESTAURANT AND PUB 6958 E. Tanque Verde Road. 885-8277. CASA VICENTE RESTAURANTE ESPAÑOL 375 S. Stone Ave. 884-5253. CHE’S LOUNGE 350 N. Fourth Ave. 623-2088. CHICAGO BAR 5954 E. Speedway Blvd. 748-8169. CHUY’S MESQUITE BROILER 22ND STREET 7101 E. 22nd St. 722-5117. CIRCLE S SALOON 16001 W. El Tiro Road. Marana. 682-5377. CLUB CONGRESS 311 E. Congress St. 622-8848. LA COCINA RESTAURANT, CANTINA AND COFFEE BAR 201 N. Court Ave. 622-0351. COLT’S TASTE OF TEXAS STEAKHOUSE 8310 N. Thornydale Road. 572-5968. COPPER QUEEN HOTEL 11 Howell Ave. Bisbee. (520) 432-2216. COW PALACE 28802 S. Nogales Highway. Amado. (520) 398-8000. COW PONY BAR AND GRILL 6510 E. Tanque Verde Road. 721-2781. CUSHING STREET RESTAURANT AND BAR 198 W. Cushing St. 622-7984. DAKOTA CAFE AND CATERING CO. 6541 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-7188. DELECTABLES RESTAURANT AND CATERING 533 N. Fourth Ave. 884-9289. THE DEPOT SPORTS BAR 3501 E. Fort Lowell Road. 795-8110.

DESERT DIAMOND CASINO MONSOON NIGHTCLUB 7350 S. Nogales Highway. 294-7777. DESERT DIAMOND CASINO SPORTS BAR Interstate 19 and Pima Mine Road. 294-7777. DIABLOS SPORTS BAR AND GRILL 2545 S. Craycroft Road. 514-9202. DON’S BAYOU CAJUN COOKIN’ 8991 E. Tanque Verde Road. 749-4410. DRIFTWOOD BAR 2001 S. Craycroft Road. 790-4317. EDDIES COCKTAILS 8150 E. 22nd St. 290-8750. EL CHARRO CAFÉ SAHUARITA 15920 S. Rancho Sahuarita. Sahuarita. 325-1922. EL CHARRO CAFÉ ON BROADWAY 6310 E. Broadway Blvd. 745-1922. EL MEZÓN DEL COBRE 2960 N. First Ave. 791-0977. EL PARADOR 2744 E. Broadway Blvd. 881-2744. ELBOW ROOM 1145 W. Prince Road. 690-1011. ELLIOTT’S ON CONGRESS 135 E. Congress St. 622-5500. ENOTECA PIZZERIA WINE BAR 58 W. Congress St. 623-0744. FAMOUS SAM’S BROADWAY 1830 E. Broadway Blvd. 884-0119. FAMOUS SAM’S E. GOLF LINKS 7129 E. Golf Links Road. 296-1245. FAMOUS SAM’S SILVERBELL 2320 N. Silverbell Road. 884-7267. FAMOUS SAM’S VALENCIA 3010 W. Valencia Road. 883-8888. FAMOUS SAM’S W. RUTHRAUFF 2480 W. Ruthrauff Road. 292-0492. FAMOUS SAM’S IRVINGTON 2048 E. Irvington Road. 889-6007. FAMOUS SAM’S ORACLE 8058 N. Oracle Road. 531-9464. FAMOUS SAM’S PIMA 3933 E. Pima St. 323-1880. FOX AND HOUND SMOKEHOUSE AND TAVERN Foothills Mall, 7625 N. La Cholla Blvd. 575-1980. FOX TUCSON THEATRE 17 W. Congress St. 624-1515. FROG AND FIRKIN 874 E. University Blvd. 623-7507. LA FUENTE 1749 N. Oracle Road. 623-8659. FUKU SUSHI 940 E. University Blvd. 798-3858. GENTLE BEN’S BREWING COMPANY 865 E. University Blvd. 624-4177. GOLD Westward Look Resort, 245 E. Ina Road. 917-2930, ext. 474. THE GRILL AT QUAIL CREEK 1490 Quail Range Loop. Green Valley. 393-5806. GUADALAJARA GRILL EAST 750 N. Kolb Road. 296-1122. GUADALAJARA GRILL WEST 1220 E. Prince Road. 323-1022. THE HANGART 512 N. Echols Ave. HIDEOUT BAR AND GRILL 1110 S. Sherwood Village Drive. 751-2222. THE HIDEOUT 3000 S. Mission Road. 791-0515. HILDA’S SPORTS BAR 1120 Circulo Mercado. Rio Rico. (520) 281-9440. THE HOG PIT SMOKEHOUSE BAR AND GRILL 6910 E. Tanque Verde Road. 722-4302. THE HUT 305 N. Fourth Ave. 623-3200. IGUANA CAFE 210 E. Congress St. 882-5140. IRISH PUB 9155 E. Tanque Verde Road. 749-2299. JASPER NEIGHBORHOOD RESTAURANT AND BAR 6370 N. Campbell Ave., No. 160. 577-0326. JAVELINA CANTINA 445 S. Alvernon Way. 881-4200, ext. 5373. JEFF’S PUB 112 S. Camino Seco Road. 886-1001.

KNOW WHERE II 1308 W. Glenn St. 623-3999. KON TIKI 4625 E. Broadway Blvd. 323-7193. LAFFS COMEDY CAFFÉ 2900 E. Broadway Blvd. 323-8669. LAS CAZUELITAS EVENT CENTER 1365 W. Grant Road. 206-0405. LI’L ABNER’S STEAKHOUSE 8500 N. Silverbell Road. 744-2800. LB SALOON 6925 E. Broadway Blvd. 886-8118. LOOKOUT BAR AND GRILLE AT WESTWARD LOOK RESORT 245 E. Ina Road. 297-1151. LOTUS GARDEN RESTAURANT 5975 E. Speedway Blvd. 298-3351. MARGARITA BAY 7415 E. 22nd St. 290-8977. MAVERICK 6622 E. Tanque Verde Road. 298-0430. MAYNARDS MARKET AND KITCHEN 400 N. Toole Ave. 545-0577. MCMAHON’S PRIME STEAKHOUSE 2959 N. Swan Road. 327-7463. MESCAL BAR AND GRILL 70 N. Cherokee Trail. Mescal. (520) 586-3905. MIDTOWN BAR AND GRILL 4915 E. Speedway Blvd. 327-2011. MINT COCKTAILS 3540 E. Grant Road. 881-9169. MONTEREY COURT STUDIO GALLERIES AND CAFÉ 505 W. Miracle Mile. 207-2429. MR. AN’S TEPPAN STEAK AND SUSHI 6091 N. Oracle Road. 797-0888. MR. HEAD’S ART GALLERY AND BAR 513 N. Fourth Ave. 792-2710. MUSIC BOX 6951 E. 22nd St. 747-1421. NEVADA SMITH’S 1175 W. Miracle Mile. 622-9064. NEW MOON TUCSON 915 W. Prince Road. 293-7339. NORTH 2995 E. Skyline Drive. 299-1600. O’MALLEY’S 247 N. Fourth Ave. 623-8600. OLD FATHER INN 4080 W. Ina Road. Marana. 744-1200. OLD PUEBLO GRILLE 60 N. Alvernon Way. 326-6000. ORACLE INN 305 E. American Ave. Oracle. 896-3333. O’SHAUGHNESSY’S 2200 N. Camino Principal. 296-7464. OUTLAW SALOON 1302 W. Roger Road. 888-3910. PAPPY’S DINER 1300 W. Prince Road. 408-5262. PARADISO BAR AND LOUNGE Casino Del Sol, 5655 W. Valencia Road. (800) 344-9435. THE PARISH 6453 N. Oracle Road. 797-1233. LA PARRILLA SUIZA 2720 N. Oracle Road. 624-4300. PEARSON’S PUB 1120 S. Wilmot Road. 747-2181. PLAYGROUND BAR AND LOUNGE 278 E. Congress St. 396-3691. PLUSH 340 E. Sixth St. 798-1298. PURGATORY 1310 S. Alvernon Way. 795-1996. PUTNEY’S 6090 N. Oracle Road. 575-1767. PY STEAKHOUSE 5655 W. Valencia Road, inside Casino del Sol. (800) 344-9435. R PLACE BAR AND GRILL 3412 N. Dodge Blvd. 881-9048. RA SUSHI BAR RESTAURANT 2905 E. Skyline Drive. 615-3970. RAGING SAGE COFFEE ROASTERS 2458 N. Campbell Ave. 320-5203. REBELARTE COLLECTIVE (SKRAPPY’S) 191 E. Toole Ave. 358-4287. RIC’S CAFE/RESTAURANT 5605 E. River Road. 577-7272. RILEY’S IRISH TAVERN 5140 N. La Cholla Blvd. 408-0507. RIVER’S EDGE LOUNGE 4635 N. Flowing Wells Road. 887-9027.

RJ’S REPLAYS SPORTS PUB AND GRUB 5769 E. Speedway Blvd. 495-5136. THE ROCK 136 N. Park Ave. 629-9211. ROYAL SUN INN AND SUITES 1015 N. Stone Ave. 622-8871. RUNWAY BAR AND GRILL 2101 S. Alvernon Way. 790-6788. RUSTY’S FAMILY RESTAURANT AND SPORTS GRILLE 2075 W. Grant Road. 623-3363. SALTY DAWG II 6121 E. Broadway Blvd., No. 106. 790-3294. SAM HUGHES PLACE CHAMPIONSHIP DINING 446 N. Campbell Ave. 747-5223. SAPPHIRE LOUNGE 61 E. Congress St. 624-9100. SHERATON HOTEL AND SUITES 5151 E. Grant Road. 323-6262. SHOOTERS STEAKHOUSE AND SALOON 3115 E. Prince Road. 322-0779. SHOT IN THE DARK CAFÉ 121 E. Broadway Blvd. 882-5544. SINBAD’S FINE MEDITERRANEAN CUISINE 810 E. University Ave. 623-4010. SIR VEZA’S TACO GARAGE WETMORE 220 W. Wetmore Road. 888-8226. SKY BAR 536 N. Fourth Ave. 622-4300. THE SKYBOX RESTAURANT AND SPORTS BAR 5605 E. River Road. 529-7180. SOLAR CULTURE 31 E. Toole Ave. 884-0874. SPARKROOT 245 E. Congress St. 272-8949. STADIUM GRILL 3682 W. Orange Grove Road. Marana. 877-8100. THE STATION PUB AND GRILL 8235 N. Silverbell Road, No. 105. 789-7040. THE STEAKOUT RESTAURANT AND SALOON 3620 W. Tangerine Road. Marana. 572-1300. STOCKMEN’S LOUNGE 1368 W. Roger Road. 887-2529. SULLIVAN’S STEAK HOUSE 1785 E. River Road. 299-4275. SURLY WENCH PUB 424 N. Fourth Ave. 882-0009. TANQUE VERDE RANCH 14301 E. Speedway Blvd. 296-6275. TANQUE VERDE SWAP MEET 4100 S. Palo Verde Road. 294-4252. TERRY AND ZEKE’S 4603 E. Speedway Blvd. 325-3555. THIRSTY’S NEIGHBORHOOD GRILL 2422 N. Pantano Road. 885-6585. TOBY KEITH’S I LOVE THIS BAR AND GRILL 4500 N. Oracle Road. 265-8629. TOPAZ 657 W. St. Mary’s Road, No. C1A. TRIDENT GRILL 2033 E. Speedway Blvd. 795-5755. TUCSON LIVE MUSIC SPACE 125 W. Ventura St. UNICORN SPORTS LOUNGE 8060 E. 22nd St., No. 118. 722-6900. V FINE THAI 9 E. Congress St. 882-8143. WHISKEY TANGO 140 S. Kolb Road. 344-8843. WILDCAT HOUSE 1801 N. Stone Ave. 622-1302. WINGS-PIZZA-N-THINGS 8838 E. Broadway Blvd. 722-9663. WISDOM’S CAFÉ 1931 E. Frontage Road. Tumacacori. 398-2397. WOODEN NICKEL 1908 S. Country Club Road. 323-8830. WORLD FAMOUS GOLDEN NUGGET 2617 N. First Ave. 622-9202.

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KARAOKE/OPEN MIC The Bamboo Club Karaoke with DJ Tony G Best Western Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y-Not Karaoke Buffalo Wild Wings Y-Not Karaoke Driftwood Bar El Charro Café Sahuarita Famous Sam’s Silverbell Amazing Star Karaoke Famous Sam’s Valencia Hilda’s Sports Bar The Hog Pit Smokehouse Bar and Grill Steve Morningwood acoustic open-mic night Know Where II New Star Karaoke Margarita Bay Music Box Outlaw Saloon Chubbrock Entertainment Pappy’s Diner Open mic River’s Edge Lounge Karaoke with KJ David Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y Not Karaoke Stadium Grill Chubbrock Entertainment Thirsty’s Neighborhood Grill

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KARAOKE/OPEN MIC Best Western Royal Sun Inn and Suites Y-Not Karaoke Brats Brodie’s Tavern Driftwood Bar Famous Sam’s W. Ruthrauff Famous Sam’s Pima Iguana Cafe Jeff’s Pub Kustom Karaoke Know Where II New Star Karaoke LB Saloon Karaoke with 1Phat DJ Margarita Bay Midtown Bar and Grill Putney’s Karaoke with DJ Soup

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SAT FEB 2 LIVE MUSIC Arizona Inn Dennis Reed The Bashful Bandit Live music The Bone-In Steakhouse Bobby Wilson Boondocks Lounge Anna Warr and Giant Blue Café Passé Country Saturdays Che’s Lounge Live music Chicago Bar Neon Prophet Club Congress Daniel Johnston, Reubens Accomplice La Cocina Restaurant, Cantina and Coffee Bar Miss Lana Rebel, Kevin Michael Mayfield, Hey, Bucko Colt’s Taste of Texas Steakhouse Live music Cow Pony Bar and Grill DJ spins music Cushing Street Restaurant and Bar Live music Dakota Cafe and Catering Co. Howard Wooten Delectables Restaurant and Catering Live music Don’s Bayou Cajun Cookin’ Melody Louise Eddies Cocktails Dust Devils El Charro Café Sahuarita Live salsa band El Mezón del Cobre Mariachi Azteca Enoteca Pizzeria Wine Bar Phil Borzillo Famous Sam’s E. Golf Links Live music Fox Tucson Theatre Desert Rose Band, Silver Thread Trio La Fuente Mariachi Estrellas de la Fuente Gold Live music Guadalajara Grill East Live mariachi music Guadalajara Grill West Live Latin music The Hideout Los Bandidos The Hut The Tryst Irish Pub Billy Templeton Freestyle Band Jasper Neighborhood Restaurant and Bar Eric Castillo Las Cazuelitas Event Center Mariachis Li’l Abner’s Steakhouse Arizona Dance Hands Lookout Bar and Grille at Westward Look Resort Live acoustic Maverick Flipside McMahon’s Prime Steakhouse Lounge: Daniel “Sly” Slipetsky Monterey Court Studio Galleries and Café Greyhound Soul Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar Local Motion O’Malley’s Live music Old Pueblo Grille Jazz Jam with Pete Swan Trio Oracle Inn Wild Ride Band O’Shaughnessy’s Live pianist and singer

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NINE QUESTIONS Josh Cicci Josh Cicci was born in Derby, Conn., but heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s called Southern Arizona home for 20 years. He has worked with kids in an educational or behavioral health capacity his entire adult life. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a cartoonist and illustrator, writing and drawing Prickly Pair, a monthly comic appearing in the Tubac Villager. See more artwork at www.joshcicci.com. Eric Swedlund, mailbag@tucsonweekly.com

What was the first concert you attended? Huey Lewis and the News at Lake Compounce amusement park, in Bristol, Conn., in 1985 or 1986. Huey was huge at the time and there were rides. It was awesome. What are you listening to these days? Frightened Rabbit, Blitzen Trapper, the Gourds, Loudon Wainwright III, Mariachi El Bronx, Otis Redding, Johnny Ace and Locals Only on KXCI. What was the first album you owned? It was Dare to Be Stupid by â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weird Alâ&#x20AC;? Yankovic, on vinyl. The son of my pastor, who was in a Black Sabbath cover band, gave it to me and I thought it was so funny and subversive, but you listen to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yodaâ&#x20AC;? and suddenly you are listening to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lolaâ&#x20AC;? and then Ray Davies and the Kinks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weird Alâ&#x20AC;? was a gateway drug. What artist, genre, or musical trend does everyone seem to love but you just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get? I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand teen crossover artists. I get why kids would like Justin Bieber or Taylor Swift or boy bands, but I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t understand how adults with real-life perspective dig it. What musical act, current or defunct, would you most like to see perform live? James Brown or the Clash. Musically speaking, what is your favorite guilty pleasure? 1990s R&B. Another Bad Creation, Bell Biv Devoe, the East Coast Family, Color Me Badd, En Vogue, etc. What song would you like to have played at your funeral? â&#x20AC;&#x153;My Lifeâ&#x20AC;? by Iris Dement followed by â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Galaxy Songâ&#x20AC;? by Monty Python. What band or artist changed your life, and how? The Violent Femmes. The songs are a little funny now, but the debut album, for my high school brain, was an epiphany. The angst was so sincere and earnest and sarcastic. It wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t aggressive, but it was venomous. It was nectar to my tortured teenage soul. Figurative gun to your head, what is your favorite album of all time? Bob Dylan, Blood on the Tracks.

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RHYTHM & VIEWS Various Artists

Toro y Moi

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Though the current crop of indie R&B deconstructionists have put out several great albums—Frank Ocean’s channel ORANGE, Miguel’s Kaleidoscope Dreams and the Weeknd’s Trilogy are the deservingly oft-cited examples—they’re also records that you can’t help but feel a little bummed out by. There’s a millennial sobriety and existential drift at their heart. It’s music for and about loneliness. Fans of alternative and/ or indie R&B records who’d like a little more warmth and comfort need look no further than Toro Y Moi’s third record, Anything in Return. Though Anything feels downright sedate compared to 2011’s disco-amphetaminefueled Underneath the Pine, it still crackles with vibrancy. Where the Weeknd and their ilk often sound beamed from some distant, lost satellite, Anything feels comfortingly earthbound. Much R&B of the last 15 years, since around the time of TLC’s FanMail, has embraced a science fiction aesthetic to comment on and channel the post-Internet era—airy productions full of background hiss; cybernetic, heavily filtered vocals. Anything looks to the past to ground itself, incorporating the trippy glow of 1970s funk and psychedelic soul on tracks like “High Living” and “So Many Details.” Anything’s strength is how utterly human it sounds. Chadwick Bundick is not interested in turning himself into a cyborg; he’d rather channel Innervisions-era Stevie Wonder. Anything in Return makes a fine pairing with Bruno Mars’ shockingly good Unorthodox Jukebox, as both records make satisfying contemporary pop/R&B by mining classic sounds. Sean Bottai

Led by founder, songwriter, vocalist and guitar player Dave Heumann, Baltimore’s Arbouretum has often been described as folk rock, soulblues, etc. These are easy terms to throw around, but they don’t really convey what the band actually sounds like. The band’s newest album, Coming Out of the Fog does indeed fit the above descriptions, with Arbouretum picking up exactly where they left off in their previous two albums. Unfortunately, it’s just too much of the same old formula. While Heumann deserves credit for placing his vocals at the forefront of the mix, ultimately they are just too dominant. It’s nearly impossible to ignore the distinct likeness that it has to ’70s radio folk gods like Gordon Lightfoot and Mickey Newbury. And it tends to distract the listener from Heumann’s natural strengths as a singer and writer. The remaining three members create a foundation (drums, bass, guitar) for Heumann’s voice to flourish. The relentless and repetitive floor tom-snare drum, bass and distortion-laden guitar patterns come off as a sort of trudging Americana version of noise acts like Swans. This creates ample space for Heumann’s vocals and guitar solos to stretch out for as long as necessary. Of the eight tracks on Coming Out, none really stand out. Rather, they tend to feel like separate parts of the same song. This would be an interesting approach if it were merely a phase in the band’s career. Unfortunately, Arbouretum are in a bit of a folk-rock rut and, thus, not out of the fog quite yet. Here’s hoping they work their heavy grooves into newer territory next time around. Brian Mock

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Like seemingly every American city of any significant size, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul had a thriving soul and funk scene in the 1960s and ’70s. In their case it would be P.P.: pre-Prince. In fact, one of these acts, The Lewis Connection, at one point featured a very young Prince Rogers Nelson. Minneapolis’ own Secret Stash Records is plugging a big hole in the historical narrative with Twin Cities Funk & Soul, which presents 21 tracks by 13 acts, spread over two LPs or a CD. The beautiful packaging includes a large-format, detailed newsprint insert with the vinyl version; presumably the CD has the same. So, whether you’ve heard of any of them or not, here are hot soul burners, gritty funk workouts, a funk sax instrumental and a discoey number by the likes of local heroes Wee Willie Walker, Wanda Davis, the Valdons, Jackie Harris & the Champions, Morris Wilson, the Lewis Connection, Prophets of Peace and a few more. The cool cats at Secret Stash waded through a wealth of material to mine the gold, and it shows; the quality control is set on high, there’s no filler and the remastering is excellent. So, cue up “I Ain’t Gonna Cheat on You No More” by Wee Willie Walker, “Take Care” by Wanda Davis, “All Day Long” by the Valdons or “The Maxx” by Prophets of Peace and be transported back to the funky side of the Twin Cities, circa 1964-1979—and be prepared to seriously get your groove on. Carl Hanni

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Taking on the Teabillies, Pt. 2 BY J.M. SMITH, jsmith@tucsonweekly.com llow me to repeat myself, at the risk of repeating myself. Two weeks ago, I wrote about a Teabilly lawmaker’s attempt to repeal the Arizona Medical Marijuana Act by bringing it to voters again in 2014. He introduced a resolution in the Legislature that would force you to pay for a multimillion-dollar do-over, even though recent surveys show that 59 percent of state residents support outright legalization. Even if Teabilly Boy gets his vote, it seems the AMMA will likely pass again. Last week, medical cannabis advocates fired back at a news conference outside the state Capitol. Jim Dyer, a self-described conservative Republican and an MMJ patient, was there to add his worthy and respectable 2 cents’ worth. Dyer, a retired Tucson attorney forced from his job by multiple sclerosis, urged lawmakers to listen to what we said the first time around. “I don’t understand why the Legislature wants to get in the face of the voters again and say, ‘Hey, we want you to vote on this again.’ … That’s insulting to me, and it should be insulting to the rest of the voters in Arizona,” Dyer said. He thinks authorities should focus on the scores of cannabis clubs that have popped up across the state. The clubs offer space where patients can exchange medication, but they operate in a bit of a gray area of the law. The AMMA doesn’t recognize them, and there are no laws governing them. More than a year ago, a judge ordered that they be allowed to remain open until their legality can be sorted out. Dyer thinks—and I agree—that these clubs are the likely source of cannabis diverted to kids, a key concern of the lawmaker who wants another AMMA vote. Insulting our collective smarts, this Lawmaker Who Shall Remain Nameless thinks we were fooled into thinking that people with

serious illnesses would be helped by cannabis. He thinks a lot of patients are lying about chronic pain to get MMJ cards. Well, I have a few choice words for this “man” who is calling me a liar. Here are the first two: Fuck you. I wish you could walk in my shoes for a day or two. You clearly know what it’s like to be a pain in the ass, but it would be fun to watch you rush for the Vicodin if you had one. I’ve been dealing with chronic pain for more than 20 years—it’s right there in black and white on my U.S. Army discharge papers. (It was an honorable discharge, Teabilly Boy.) I didn’t ask anyone to write that on my discharge physical—a doctor did it because it’s a fact. Teabilly Boy also thinks no medical authority would say cannabis is helping people. They all say it’s hurting you, he says. That’s unequivocal bullshit. There are scores and scores of studies, surveys and other tidbits of medical evidence from scores of medical authorities that say otherwise. Scores. Um, that’s more than none, Teabilly Boy. He is either lying or completely incompetent with the Internet. It isn’t hard to find the medical evidence. You can find it here: http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org I usually consider the American Medical Association a viable medical authority. They believe cannabis has merit and is worthy of study. The federal government owns a patent on medical cannabis. So the federal government thinks medical cannabis helps people? Hmmmm. So ultimately what we have is either a horribly ignorant lawmaker who can’t manage a simple search of the Internet or a lying lawmaker who tells you that medical professionals don’t think cannabis is effective. Either way, I urge extreme caution in listening to the fuckstick. Wait … on second thought, I urge you to ignore him. He is irrelevant in the face of progress.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, called himself a Christian. But he also acknowledged that there weren’t any other Christians like him. He said he belonged to a sect consisting of one person—himself. While he admired the teachings of Jesus Christ, he had no use for the supernatural aspects of the stories told in the New Testament. So he created his own version of the Bible, using only those parts he agreed with. Now would be an excellent time for you to be inspired by Jefferson’s approach, Scorpio. Is there a set of ideas that appeals to you in some ways but not in others? Tailor it to your own special needs. Make it your own. Become a sect of one.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My hotel was nice but the neighborhood where it was located seemed sketchy. As I returned to my room after a jaunt to the convenience store, I received inquiries from two colorfully-dressed hookers whose sales pitches were enticingly lyrical. I also passed a lively man who proposed that I purchase some of his top-grade meth, crack or heroin. I thanked them all for their thoughtful invitations but said I wasn’t in the mood. Then I slipped back into my hotel room to dine on my strawberry smoothie and blueberry muffin as I watched HBO. My experience could have something in common with your immediate future, Virgo. I suspect you may be tempted with offers that seem exotic and adventurous but are not really that good for you. Stick to the healthy basics, please. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A West Coast DJ named Shakti Bliss wrote a remarkable status update on her Facebook page. Here’s an edited excerpt: “In the past 24 hours, I did yoga in a bathtub, hauled furniture by myself in the rain, got expert dating advice from an 11-year-old, learned the lindy hop, saw a rainbow over the ocean, had thrift store clothes stolen out of my car by a homeless man, made a magic protection amulet out of a piece of cardboard, was fed quinoa soup by the buffest 50-year-old South African woman I’ve ever met, bowed to a room full of applause, and watched two of my favorite men slow dance together to Josephine Baker singing in French.” I suspect that you Libras will be having days like that in the coming week: packed with poetic adventures. Are you ready to handle

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Everyone is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day,” said writer Elbert Hubbard. “Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.” Judging from my personal experience, I’d say that five minutes is a lowball figure. My own daily rate is rarely

less than half an hour. But the good news as far as you’re concerned, Sagittarius, is that in the coming weeks you might have many days when you’re not a damn fool for even five seconds. In fact, you may break your all-time records for levels of wild, pure wisdom. Make constructive use of your enhanced intelligence! CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Most humans have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted,” said Aldous Huxley. If that’s true, Capricorn, it’s important that you NOT act like a normal human in the next few weeks. Taking things for granted would be a laziness you can’t afford to indulge. In fact, I think you should renew your passion for and commitment to all your familiar pleasures and fundamental supports. Are you fully aware of the everyday miracles that allow you to thrive? Express your appreciation for the sources that nourish you so reliably. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Poet Jacob Nibengenesabe was a member of the Swampy Cree, a First Nation tribe in Canada. He wrote shamanic poems from the point of view of a magical trickster

who could change himself into various creatures. In one poem, the shapeshifter talked about how important it is to be definite about what he wanted. “There was a storm once,” he said. “That’s when I wished myself / to be a turtle / but I meant on land! / The one that carries a hard tent / on his back. / I didn’t want to be floating!” By the end of the poem, the shapeshifter concluded, “I’ve got to wish things exactly! / That’s the way it is / from now on.” I hope that will be the way it is from now on for you, too, Aquarius. Visualize your desires in intricate, exact detail. For example, if you want to be a bird for a while, specify what kind. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): As you sleep, you have at least a thousand dreams every year. But if you’re typical, you may recall only a few of them. Doesn’t that bother you? To be so ignorant of the stories your subconscious mind works so hard to craft? To be out of touch with what the Iroquois call “the secret wishes of your soul”? Now is an excellent time to develop a stronger relationship with your dreams, Pisces. It’s high time to explore the deeper strata of your life’s big mysteries.

¡ASK A MEXICAN! BY GUSTAVO ARELLANO, themexican@askamexican.net Dear Mexican: Grammar question/rant. If Spanglish is a legitimate dialect/language, why do you feel the need to italicize every instance of code switching? I seriously doubt that when you speak you emphasize every puta palabra (emphasis intended here), but that’s what your article reads like. We all know that you are speaking Spanglish—not a foreign language—so tell the gabacho (no emphasis intended here) editors to back off and let you use italics for what they are intended for: emphasis. Strunk & Brown

en vogue. My guess is that they don’t use filters that everyone else uses. Techie Gabacho Dear Gabacho: Same reason porn is always at the forefront of technology: gotta make those chichis shine!

Dear Wab: Gracias for thinking that Spanglish is a legitimate form of communication—you just made the custodians of Cervantes and shepherds of Shakespeare get angrier than Joe Arpayaso surrounded by a group of Mexicans! But we’re talking two separate cosas here. My linguistic goal with this columna isn’t for America to accept Spanglish, but for American English and its speakers to pick up more Spanish words so that one day, I won’t have to use italics on said words to differentiate their otherness. It’s happened over the decades: at one point, editors italicized Spanish words like amigo, tequila, fiesta, and siesta because they were foreign concept to gabacho audiences, but the words were used enough so that we no longer italicize them. Think of it as a linguistic Reconquista, of Latin slowly beating down English’s Germanic influences! The only way to teach an audience a new palabra, then, is to signify a code switch via the italics, but I make sure to use simple Spanish words that can possibly gain wider currency—gabacho, pendejo, desmadre—and eventually assimilate into the American lingua franca and cultura. And I don’t have to worry about any gabacho editors telling me when to use italics and when I can’t—I’m the pinche Mexican, for crying out loud. But even this cabrón cannot persuade the unforgiving pen of his copy editor, who can make the most grizzled reporter tremble with just a flash of the red pluma.

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Euskadi Enthusiast Dear Gabacho: Nueva Vizcaya, of course, refers to the province of New Spain that nowadays roughly encompasses Chihuahua and Durango, and parts of Sonora, Sinaloa, and other northern Mexico states, and was named by the Basque explorer Francisco de Ibarra after Biscay. Other Spanish explorers also named provinces in New Spain after their home regions—Nuevo Galicia, Nuevo León (which the modern-day Mexican state is named after), and the awesomely titled Nuevo Santander, after the city in the kingdom of Cantabria. But in terms of large-scale regional Spanish migration to particular areas of Mexico during the era of the Conquistadors, the Mexican is going to have to plead partial mestizaje on this one. The most famous mass settling of particular groups happened in what’s now the United States—Canary Islanders in San Antonio, and marranos (crytpo-Jews) in New Mexico—while outside of northern Mexico and its concentration of Garzas, most of the other Spaniards just melted into the pozole. All the early Spanish immigrants ultimately left as a legacy in Mexico was Spanish, surnames, and a taste for ultra-violence.

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am? It was interactive porn—it was like he was cybersexing with one of his ex-girlfriends. What should I do? Sad And Deceived Was your boyfriend having cybersex with an ex-girlfriend? Or did it only feel like he was? I would make a distinction, SAD, because while all porn constitutes a betrayal of the terms of your relationship, interacting with a stranger and, very likely, a professional online shouldn’t feel quite so threatening. Backing way the hell up: Your boyfriend shouldn’t have lied to you, SAD, but you shouldn’t have been so naive as to believe him. If you can’t bring yourself to forgive him for lying—if you can’t put yourself in his shoes and try to understand why he might lie about this (shame, fear, a desire to spare your feelings)— then this relationship is doomed. End it and find a new boyfriend. But when your next boyfriend tells you he doesn’t watch porn, you’re going to look at him and say, “Suuuuuure, you don’t.” Ask your new boyfriend to be discreet and limit his porn consumption to an extent where you’re unlikely to uncover any evidence of it, as porn upsets you. If your new boyfriend manages to do that for you, SAD, if he’s considerate enough to cover his tracks, you should be considerate enough to turn a blind eye on those rare occasions when you do stumble over evidence that your new boyfriend watches porn— just like your old boyfriend did and all your future boyfriends will. I ended a two-and-a-half-year relationship six months ago. By “ended” I mean my then-boyfriend packed up everything I owned and put it on the lawn—just like in the movies! The reason for this was that he hacked into my e-mail and read some very graphic letters about an affair I’d had in Mexico just weeks prior. My CPOS justifications: (1) We were on a break, and I had been living with friends to escape his anger problems and emotional abuse. I was still seeing him periodically and slept with him a couple times. (2) He wouldn’t go down on me. (3) When I tried to break up with him in the past, he threatened suicide. (4) He had many kinks and a history of cheating, and he threatened that if I didn’t participate in gang bangs, he would find someone who would. I didn’t feel safe sexually or emotionally with him, and I found an evening of relief from my shitty relationship in Mexico while we were on a break. I felt energized, attractive, and like I was dealing with a healthy adult. That was the catalyst that got me out of the relationship on his terms, and I wouldn’t do anything differently if I had a choice. Am I a CPOS? My EX Isn’t Completely Obtuse For readers who are just joining us: A CPOS is a “cheating piece of shit,” someone who cheats on a partner without grounds. You are not a CPOS, MEXICO. You had grounds: You wanted out, tried to get out, but couldn’t get out because your crazy ex essentially took himself hostage by threatening suicide. (Which is an abuser’s tactic, folks, please make a note of it.) Your infantile, manipulative, selfish ex wasn’t allowing you to go peacefully. Cheating on him and getting caught may not have been a conscious exit strategy on your part, MEXICO, but it was a perfectly executed one. Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage.

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Watchers Watching Porn Perspective: A leading “adult” search engine reported in December that, over the last seven years, just two of the most popular Internet pornography websites it analyzes have been viewed 93 billion separate times, which averages to about 13 views for every person on Earth. Given the average viewing time of 11 minutes per visit, the search engine (PornWatchers.com) calculated that men (and a few women, of course) have spent about 1.2 million years watching pornography on just those two sites. Noted the search engine in its press release, “Say goodbye” to calling online porn a “niche.” “It’s in every living room on this planet.” Updates • Almost-extinct vultures may be making a comeback within the Parsi community of Mumbai, India, after a pain reliever (diclofenac) nearly wiped it out. Parsis’ Zoroastrian religion requires “natural” body disposals (no cremation or burial) of humans and cattle, and bodies have always been ritually laid out for the hungry birds, but the community has also come to rely on diclopfenac in hospitals and for cattle. When News of the Weird last mentioned the problems (in 2001), vultures were dying out from kidney damage caused by the drug, and bodies were piling up. (Parsis were exploring using solar panels to burn the corpses.) However, according to a November New York Times dispatch, clerics are reporting modest success in weaning Parsis off of diclofenac, and the vultures appear more plentiful. • “Washington State, Known for ...”: When a man died of a perforated colon in 2005 in Enumclaw, Wash., while having sex with a horse (at what news reports suggested was a “bestiality farm”), the legislature passed the state’s first anti-bestiality law, which was used in 2010 in another “farm” case, in Bellingham, 110 miles from Enumclaw. A British man had sex with several dogs on the property of Douglas Spink, who had allegedly arranged the trysts, and the man was convicted and deported, but Spink was not charged (though instead was re-imprisoned for an earlier crime). In November 2012, with Spink nearing release, prosecutors filed bestiality charges using evidence from 2010, involving “four stallions, seven large-breed male dogs” and “13 mice, each coated with a lubricant.” According to the Bellingham Herald, Spink (acting as his own lawyer) denounced state officials and “the bigotry behind the (law).” Recurring Themes • Least Competent Criminals: Peter Welsh, 32, and Dwayne Doolan, 31, weren’t the first burglars to try breaking into a building by smashing through the adjoining basement wall, but they might be the clumsiest. Their target, on New Year’s Eve, was Wrights Jewellers in Beaudesert, Australia, but trying to smash the front window failed, as did smashing the rear doors, which were actually those of another 62 WWW.TuCsON WEEKLY.COM

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